TOPEKA — A bill heard Monday would list kratom as a Schedule 1 drug, moving the previously unclassified substance into the same category as methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin. Senate Bill 497 classifies both Kratom and 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, as controlled substances. Proponents and ...
A layout drawing for the Lawrence airport that’s required by the Federal Aviation Administration got the approval of the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday night. Commissioners voted 4-0 at their meeting to approve the drawing, which shows a variety of structures and improvements at ...
City leaders on Tuesday gave final approval to an incentives package for the redevelopment of the historic Reuter Organ building in downtown Lawrence – a project the developer said was “too big” to do without help. The Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1 on Tuesday, with Vice Mayor Mike ...
The City of Lawrence extended the closure of Ninth Street near downtown an additional block west to accommodate further construction. The city closed Ninth Street from Louisiana Street to Mississippi Street to traffic on Tuesday as part of the work on the Jayhawk Watershed Middle Reach Project ...
The Lawrence Mardi Gras Parade partied through Massachusetts Street on Tuesday.
A 21-year-old Eudora man who is still on parole for a 2023 Lawrence shooting — one that, according to a legal fiction, didn't involve a gun — is back in the Douglas County Jail this week facing charges of additional violent crimes. Evan Gauge Heffner was charged Tuesday with three ...
