Jefferson City, Mo. — Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment’s repeal and instead ban most abortions with exceptions for rape an incest. The newly proposed ...
Topeka — The Trump administration is attempting to strike protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a bird that has teetered between threatened and endangered for decades. The administration argued in a May 7 court filing that a Biden-era ruling granting protections for the lesser prairie ...
Friday, May 16 Concert: Taylor Zickefoose & Veerle Winkelmolen, 4-5:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library auditorium, 707 Vermont St. Steve Jansen Remembers: Stories of the Watkins Museum’s Early Days, 6-7 p.m., Watkins Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St. Free admission. Concert: ...
A new eco-friendly house on New York Street designed and built by University of Kansas architecture students will be open for the public to view on Saturday. The house at 1040 New York St. was built by graduate students in the architecture school's Studio 804 capstone class, which is intended ...
As the University of Kansas is touting the boost in visitors it expects from its stadium and convention center project, Douglas County leaders want to make sure that fire and medical services can handle any increase in demand. At their meeting on Wednesday, Douglas County commissioners heard ...
Updated at 4:38 p.m. Thursday, May 15 A Douglas County jury on Thursday found a man guilty of raping a woman eight years ago when the two were guests at a Lawrence home during KU’s graduation weekend. The woman testified that Reston Phillips, then 22, raped her on May 14, 2017, as she slept ...
