With winter on the way, it's once again time to submit your clever nicknames for the city's annual snow plow naming contest. The contest is now in its third year, and like previous winners “Taylor Drift” and “The Blizzard of Oz,” this year's winning name will be put on the side of one ...
Douglas County Emergency Management is inviting the public to attend a winter readiness workshop next month. The workshop will be held at the auditorium in the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Dec. 11. The free event will help people recognize cold ...
Lawrence Presbyterian Manor has been named one of the nation’s best nursing homes by the U.S. News & World Report for the fourth consecutive year. The list was published by the national news publication and rankings organization U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday. To create the ...
Story updated at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10: All lanes of the Kansas River Bridge were open at 4:25 Tuesday afternoon, a few hours after the southbound lanes were closed for a fire beneath the bridge and the northbound lanes were converted to cover both directions. Lawrence Police Department ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A third-grade field trip to the Navajo Nation Council sparked Crystalyne Curley's political ambition when she witnessed a fiery debate erupt between two tribal lawmakers. "I thought to myself at a very young age, that's where I want to be," Curley said. On ...
LAWRENCE — The love affair that bloomed between the city of Lawrence and the country of Algeria while the college town in Kansas was hosting the Desert Foxes during the World Cup has continued with a delegation from the U.S. visiting the African nation this week. The government of Algerian ...
