A new Aldi store proposed for northwest Lawrence has hit a setback with city planners – namely, that it’s set back too far from the street. The grocery store project has been proposed for the northeast corner of Sixth Street and George Williams Way, and its developers had wanted the store ...
Closing arguments in Rodney Marshall's double-murder trial that were scheduled to be heard Thursday afternoon are now slated for Friday morning in Douglas County District Court. The schedule change was due to the court and parties needing more time to complete jury instructions. Sixteen ...
A Lawrence woman is making national headlines for being detained 30 hours by U.S. custom officers after admitting that she had voted in a Lawrence City Commission and school board election, despite not being a U.S. citizen. An investigation by the nonprofit news site Propublica highlighted ...
A teacher at Community Connections at Pinckney has been named the recipient of the Lawrence Schools Foundation's excellence in teaching award, receiving a $10,000 prize. Mallory Johnson is a secondary therapeutic classroom teacher at Community Connections at Pinckney, and she was presented ...
TOPEKA — Kansas utility regulators handed a win Tuesday to landowners concerned about a transmission line bisecting large swaths of prairie grassland in the state’s south-central region. The Kansas Corporation Commission voted unanimously to approve part of Evergy’s proposed ...
Douglas County commissioners unanimously approved a contract for an environmental assessment – which is needed for the Wakarusa Drive extension project to move forward. The proposed road will extend Wakarusa Drive south from Kansas Highway 10, across the Wakarusa River to East 1000 Road. ...
