Douglas County Emergency Management is inviting the public to two free upcoming workshops about heat readiness and extreme weather training next month. The extreme heat readiness workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Monday, March 9, in Flory Meeting Hall at the Douglas County ...
A projected 650,000 people will visit the Kansas City region for the World Cup this year, and with that comes the risk of disease spreading and health care demands. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is helping physicians and public health officials prepare. KDHE recently launched ...
With its biggest fundraiser this year, the Lawrence Public Library is hoping to raise both excitement for the World Cup and money for one of its own long-term goals: a permanent performance space on the library lawn next door. The library announced earlier this month that its After Hours at ...
The sun has set on an idea to use the former Sunrise Garden center as a 200-plus-space parking lot for a proposed apartment complex about a mile away in the Oread neighborhood. Lawrence businessman Doug Compton told me he recently canceled his contract to buy the former Sunrise Garden Center ...
A felon who was facing 13 years in prison for aggravated burglary instead got probation Friday after a Douglas County judge found that he had made a "180-degree change" and that substantial and compelling reasons existed to depart from state sentencing guidelines. As Judge Stacey Donovan spoke ...
A more than $4 million housing project to serve women who are recovering from drug and alcohol addiction recently hit 95% of its fundraising goal, and it is now expected to begin housing women and their children in July. The "Improving Lives … Close to Home" campaign to support the housing ...
