Just a few years ago, it looked like Lawrence’s historic Castle Tea Room’s time as a gathering place might have been over. Attempts to run an event business at the 19th-century home at 13th and Mass. – which really does look like a castle – simply hadn’t made enough money to cover ...
Plans for a hyperscale data center on more than 1,000 acres south of Tonganoxie could be hitting a snag following two Leavenworth County meetings Wednesday in Leavenworth. A push to extend a moratorium on data centers in unincorporated areas of the county failed Aug. 5 at a Leavenworth County ...
A 20-year-old Lawrence man pleaded not guilty on Thursday in a case in which he is accused of shooting two people earlier this year and endangering others. The man, Jaystyn James Curtiss, is now scheduled to be tried on Nov. 30. In an amended complaint filed June 29, the Douglas County ...
A portion of the Bowersock Dam on the Kansas River has failed, but it is not creating any flooding concerns. Quite the opposite, actually. The dam, which sits on the stretch of the Kaw that runs alongside downtown Lawrence, isn’t a flood control dam but rather helps provide water for ...
Updated at 12:40 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13 Victims' relatives and law enforcement officials hugged one another Thursday after a Douglas County judge sentenced a Lawrence man to consecutive life terms for murdering two men and attempting to murder several more, including police officers who were ...
Updated 9:15 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026 Douglas County commissioners voiced support for a proposal that would use future tax revenue to help finance a commercial and industrial development in Eudora. The City of Eudora is proposing a new Tax Increment Financing district for a ...
