How can Lawrence neighborhoods accommodate more homes and businesses and also maintain the characteristics that make people want to live there? That’s the question that those working to update Lawrence’s land development code — which determines where and how the city grows — will soon ...
A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter, his lawyers said Thursday, producing the first criminal case against a former U.S. president and a jolt to ...
Douglas County and the sheriffs, former and present, named in a federal lawsuit filed by Rontarus Washington Jr. for wrongful incarceration are seeking dismissal of the case based on qualified immunity, the statute of limitations and failure to specify a violation. The lawsuit was filed on ...
Whether we are building many new homes or not, Douglas County is still growing, according to new figures from the Census Bureau. And that fact is saying more all the time, as Kansas’ overall population declined again. Douglas County was the 19th fastest growing county in the state by one ...
The draft version of Douglas County’s strategic plan for tackling housing and homelessness could be ready for final approval in a matter of months, and its overall objective is to achieve “functional zero” homelessness by 2028. Assistant County Administrator Jill Jolicoeur presented the ...
Updated at 1:35 p.m. Thursday, March 30, 2023 Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical crews extinguished a fire at a park shelter early Thursday morning that caused an estimated $40,000 in damage. Fire crews were dispatched at 5:50 a.m. to Chief Jim McSwain Park at the corner of East 19th Street ...
