For more than a quarter of a century, Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug has looked out on South Park from his second-floor office in the southwest corner of the Douglas County Courthouse. He has not tired of the view from his desk, nor has he lost his passion for the work he does at ...
Three intersections on the western leg of the South Lawrence Trafficway have become so dangerous that they’ve produced 53 accidents in 20 months, Kansas Department of Transportation statistics show. It is the latest sign that a completed South Lawrence Trafficway has become a more dangerous ...
The Douglas County Commission has added some high priorities to its legislative wish list for 2019: more funding for courts and community corrections, and reforms to the permitting process that utility regulators use for saltwater injection wells. Commissioners approved the county's 2019 ...
The Douglas County Commission will consider Wednesday supporting a platform in 2019 that calls on the Kansas Legislature to start looking at comprehensive criminal justice reform. In a memo to commissioners, Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug wrote that voter dissatisfaction with ...
The Douglas County Commission soon will get details of a new county jail expansion plan that could commit future commissions to annual bond payments of up to $2.9 million, even though the plan wouldn't require a vote of the public. Details of what Undersheriff Gary Bunting will recommend for ...
The Douglas County Commission agreed Wednesday to put off a decision on whether to start charging some nonprofits to use the county fairgrounds, citing confusion about what types of organizations the new language would affect. Under the current fee structure, youth organizations and nonprofits ...
It "would take a generation" to unify the governments of Douglas County and the city of Lawrence, even if there were a general agreement to do so, a man who led the effort that created the Wyandotte County Unified Government told the Douglas County Commission on Wednesday. Douglas County ...
The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday will consider appointing Assistant County Administrator Sarah Plinsky as interim county administrator while commissioners conduct a search to replace retiring County Administrator Craig Weinaug. With approval of the contract, Plinsky, who has served ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Court of Appeals on Tuesday ordered the Douglas County District Court to act "without delay" in summoning a grand jury to investigate allegations of election-related crimes in Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office during the 2016 elections. The order, officially ...
With some financial maneuvering, Douglas County could use bonds to finance improvements at the county jail, Assistant County Administrator Sarah Plinsky told Douglas County commissioners Wednesday. In the 2019 budget, the Douglas County Commission has allocated $2.9 million from the general ...
The Douglas County Commission will have a work session Wednesday on the option of using more of the money it collects from the countywide 1-cent sales tax — the one approved by voters in 1994 — to finance projects, including a jail expansion. In a report provided to county commissioners ...
Story updated at 4:29 p.m. Thursday After 28 accidents in about two years, state transportation officials are eliminating a west Lawrence intersection on the South Lawrence Trafficway. The Kansas Department of Transportation will close the intersection of Kansas Highway 10 and Kasold Drive, ...
Notes left on a comment board Wednesday at a public informational meeting on proposed upgrades for Kansas Highway 10 left no doubt about what was on attendees' minds: "No tolls." At the meeting at Southwest Middle School, which the Kansas Department of Transportation hosted to get public ...
At its short meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission announced plans for a recognition ceremony for retiring County Administrator Craig Weinaug. Weinaug announced in August he would be retiring Dec. 14 from the position he has held for 26 years. Commission Chair Nancy Thellman said ...
The Douglas County Commission will meet Wednesday with a limited agenda that includes a proclamation thanking veterans for their service. Commissioners will also consider approving an audit of the combined $1.92 million in federal funding the county and the Lawrence-Douglas County Health ...
Shannon Oury, executive director of the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority, had reason to celebrate even before county voters approved Proposition 1 on Tuesday. Officials with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development had recently informed her that they had signed off on the ...
The fall general election was a record-breaking midterm that approached the turnout of presidential election years, Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said Tuesday. A total of 47,155 of the county’s 79,895 registered voters cast ballots in the general election, for a turnout of 59 percent, Shew ...
Three incumbent Lawrence Democrats were officially re-elected to the Kansas House Tuesday in unopposed races. Winning two-year terms were Barbara Ballard, of the 44th District, which includes Lawrence precincts west of Iowa Street to Wakarusa Drive; Eileen Horn, who represents the 10th Kansas ...
Douglas County voters overwhelmingly approved a quarter-cent sales tax Tuesday that will fund a behavioral health campus and a slate of enhanced mental health and drug treatment services. The question that appeared on the ballot as Proposition 1 passed with more than 70 percent of the vote. ...
The Douglas County Commission meeting scheduled for Wednesday has been canceled. It is the second straight week the meeting has been canceled for the lack of a large agenda item. The County Commission is next scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Douglas County Courthouse, ...