Vice President JD Vance will be in Kansas again Monday, this time in Topeka, to rally for Republican U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, just a week after a visit from President Donald Trump. Vance visited the Sunflower State already last month, coming to Johnson County to support Marshall and other ...
U.S. Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling spent Friday morning touring KU Innovation Park in Lawrence to see how job creation locally could be boosted and replicated across the country. Sonderling was at Innovation Park's main facility on Becker Drive, along with University of Kansas Chancellor ...
After a four-day trial, a Douglas County jury on Friday acquitted a woman of five of the six charges she faced in a domestic abuse case. Jurors convicted defendant Shaleah Kauffman only on one count of violation of a protective order, a misdemeanor. On the other five counts — aggravated ...
What should college students who are about to enter the workforce do in a tight labor market? For some University of Kansas students, the answer lies in additional layers of support and outside-the-box thinking. That, they believe, will safeguard them from what one KU economist described as ...
While cleanup at the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant is “slowing down,” the U.S. Army is seeking additional funding to investigate contamination from a group of "forever chemicals" near a former fire station on the property. The former ammunition plant is located in northwest ...
A mistake was made, and what ensued was not a great look for local government. Last week, the city of Lawrence’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board met to begin the process of awarding about $700,000 of taxpayer funds to affordable housing projects. Step No. 1 of the process is to determine ...
