Douglas County staff is proposing a $191.4 million budget for 2026 that holds the property tax rate flat, and the county administrator said Thursday that many partner agencies are making "serious, substantial" requests for extra funding to offset federal cuts. Last year, county commissioners ...
LENEXA — The Kansas City Chiefs have requested an extension to an end-of-June deadline for a stadium financing package from the state of Kansas, an indication that the NFL franchise’s potential move across the state line from Missouri is a legitimate possibility. Chiefs President Mark ...
The Senior Resource Center for Douglas County is warning about scammers posing as someone with the center and claiming to be selling burial plots, and it wants to advise residents on how to avoid being scammed. Megan Poindexter, the executive director of the SRC, told the Journal-World the ...
Anybody who remembers the approximately 20-year effort to win approval for the South Lawrence Trafficway project, likely recalls there’s a formula to the process — first the bureaucrats, then the bulldozers. That formula still holds, which means this was a big week for an approximately ...
Lawrence school board members will hold a special meeting Friday morning to convene an executive session on a contract negotiation. The executive session, according to a news release from the district, is for the purpose of discussing “negotiations in order to protect the public interest in ...
The University of Kansas Medical Center has been awarded a five-year, $31 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to coordinate clinical trials for infants and children in rural and underserved areas. The grant is the largest five-year award in the history of KU Medical Center and ...
