The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing in women's sports at its 241 mostly small colleges across the country, including Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence and Baker University in Baldwin ...
Douglas County leaders on Wednesday approved a new plan for how the county should be conserving its open spaces, a year and a half after the development process for the plan began.
At Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting, commissioners unanimously adopted a new Open Space Plan. As ...
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the real-life force behind the movie "American Sniper," has inspired many, but one young man — who found himself actually standing in honor as the film credits rolled — has taken that inspiration to an extraordinary level.
“I just couldn't do anything but just ...
Gayla Kelly thinks her son came to Lawrence in his final days because it was a place where he had been happy.
“He said once that Lawrence was where he began his adult life” — he excitedly came to KU in 2012 to study music education — “so I believe that a part of him felt this was the ...
TOPEKA — Republican lawmakers in Topeka are trying to snuff out Lawrence’s reign as a plastic-bag-free city. If history is a guide, the GOP likely won’t have enough votes to overturn a veto from the governor.
For the fourth year in a row, lawmakers worked to prohibit municipalities from ...
Updated at 4:40 p.m. Wednesday, March 13
A Douglas County jury returned a not guilty verdict on Wednesday, acquitting a Lawrence teen in connection with the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy.
Derrick Del Reed, 18, of Lawrence, had been charged with first-degree murder in connection with ...