The Baldwin City Council has approved a plan to provide extra property tax support for the city library.
The actions the City Council approved at its March 15 meeting rescind the original charter ordinance passed in 1997, which gave the Baldwin City Library Board up to 4 mills of annual property tax authority. The council then approved a new charter ordinance giving the library up to 5 mills of annual taxing ...
The leader of a Baldwin City company that once operated a popular tourist railroad business in southern Douglas County has left the company as lawsuits regarding his leadership mount.
After four tumultuous and litigation-filled years, A.J. Stevens has left Midland Railway and its for-profit arm, Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad Company.
Stevens' resignation came after the Midland Railway ...
Wearing a Ukrainian flag over her shoulders and a traditional headdress of her homeland, Oleva Bosworth's mind was far away from the Douglas County Courthouse, where she joined about 75 other people Sunday to demonstrate against the Russian invasion of her country.
Bosworth, currently a resident of Lawrence, has lived in the United States for six years, but Ukraine is her heart's home.
"I am Ukrainian," she ...
Liberty Memorial Central Middle School eighth-grader Eli Cokelet had never heard the word "judoka" before it came up in the final round of the Douglas County Spelling Bee. But that didn't stop him from taking home the top prize.
Eli took first place in the bee, which returned to an in-person format Saturday in the Southwest Middle School auditorium after last year's virtual competition. The bee is sponsored by ...
The good news for the Lawrence area is that the ice and sleet of New Year's Day morning has moved on. The bad news is that snow is expected throughout the afternoon and cold temperatures backed by wicked winds will drive wind chill readings to deadly levels.
Brandon Drake, meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Topeka, said the sleet that made driving conditions hazardous throughout the area ...
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a shooting was reported early Saturday morning at a rural nightclub.
Sheriff's office spokesman George Diepenbrock said deputies received a report at about 3:15 a.m. of a shooting at the Outhouse in the 1800 block of North 1500 Road. Diepenbrock said the sheriff's office suspected that a person was shot during an altercation in the Outhouse parking lot ...
