To expand access to biking and outdoor activity, some second graders in the Lawrence school district will receive new bicycles and helmets later this month. The second-grade students attending Title I elementary schools will get the bikes through a partnership between the Lawrence Schools ...
A woman who was accused of stealing a City of Lawrence bus last summer and driving it across town has pleaded no contest to lesser charges and is scheduled to be sentenced next month. The woman, Sherika Carey, was originally charged with robbery, fleeing or attempting to elude police and ...
Though Lawrence's new public works and utilities campus is normally closed to the public, residents can get an inside look at an open house next week. The city in a news release on Tuesday announced that the Municipal Services and Operations campus, 1840 O'Connell Road, will be open from 5 to ...
LMH Health has become one of five Kansas health systems joining together to form a new regional healthcare alliance designed to improve patient care and create more affordable healthcare options for communties. The healthcare collaboration was dubbed Astra Health, and it includes LMH Health, ...
Following a public hearing on Wednesday, Douglas County commissioners will consider adopting the new Solid Waste Management Plan. Douglas and Jefferson counties have prepared a joint, regional Solid Waste Management Plan – which guides the management of solid waste generated within the ...
Dozens of members of Tonganoxie's teachers union demonstrated outside the district's schools last Tuesday — alongside community members, students and leaders from the Kansas National Education Association — amid an impasse in contract negotiations that centers on how vacation time is ...
