State securing emergency housing in four counties with large meatpacking plants

Gov. Laura Kelly and House and Senate legislative leaders Wednesday agreed to allocate $17.3 million to cash-starved hospitals and to dedicate $10 million to the state's emergency management system in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., met with local leaders via Zoom Wednesday to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the Garden City and Finney County area.

Emergency shutdown of the Kansas economy because of the coronavirus outbreak prompted 160,000 first-time claims for unemployment in the past four weeks that overwhelmed the computer system relied upon to process jobless benefits, officials said Thursday.

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) and Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Lee Norman, along with University of Kansas Health System Chief Medical Officer Steve Stites and Dana Hawkinson, KU Health System medical director for infection prevention and control, hosted a conference call with reporters Friday morning addressing a range of questions about the coronavirus pandemic.