The Lawrence school district has announced two interim principals for New York Montessori and Quail Run Elementary School. Virginia Gwyn has been named as the interim principal for New York Montessori, and Jeremy Philipp was selected to be the interim principal at Quail Run Elementary. ...
A portion of Iowa Street will be reduced to one lane in each direction and have turning restrictions as part of a road maintenance project starting next week. The City of Lawrence, in partnership with the Kansas Department of Transportation, will begin street maintenance work on Iowa Street ...
Multiple candidates for the Douglas County Commission on Sunday expressed concern that the county administrator was overstepping her bounds, with one sitting commissioner going so far as to say the administrator had misdirected her on occasion. The topic of whether county commissioners were ...
TOPEKA — Republican Philip Sarnecki’s stump speech at a campaign fundraiser in Leawood delved into his youth in Illinois, a prosperous business career, reasons for running for governor and a theory about how he could win the GOP nomination in August. He offered play-by-play on a call from ...
TOPEKA — Janice Powers treats her hormonal disorder with the abortion pill that Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and attorneys general from other states want to regulate as a water contaminant. Mifepristone, a medication researchers have found to be safe and effective, is commonly ...
For years, Douglas County health officials have fought to save people from opioid overdoses and addiction. But all that time, they say, a legal opioid-like substance has been “ubiquitous” in smoke shops all over town. It’s kratom, and now its days on the shelf in Kansas are numbered. ...
