A transgender Lawrence woman on Monday filed a lawsuit against the state of Kansas after it invalidated her driver's license under a state law known as SB 244. The woman, born in 1971, underwent irreversible genital reassignment surgery 13 years ago, according to the suit, and has court ...
TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday vetoed a bill adopted by the Kansas Legislature to curtail rising property taxes by placing unprecedented restrictions on the ability of cities and counties to increase spending. House and Senate Republicans secured passage of House Bill 2043 at ...
Two Douglas County Jail inmates charged with gun crimes and awaiting trial are now being charged with trafficking contraband in a correctional facility. Eighteen-year-old Caiden Clem, who has been charged with four counts of aggravated assault and one count of criminal possession of a weapon ...
Lawrence school board members approved a bus services contract on Monday with a new provider that will cost the district about $7 million in the upcoming school year. The vote was unanimous – with board members Shannon Kimball and Carole Cadue-Blackwood absent – for the three-year ...
TOPEKA — Members of No Labels Kansas Party unanimously selected a former Kansas Republican Party official and Kansans for Life political action committee director to serve as chairman of the alternative political organization founded two years ago. Chairman David Miller said No Labels ...
The artificial intelligence boom has driven companies to search nationwide for space to build "hyperscale" data centers – and it turns out, Lawrence is actually a place they could go. Not only that, the large energy-using structures wouldn't need much in the way of special approvals from ...
