Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday night approved funding the second phase of construction for the city’s new $130 million Municipal Services and Operations campus.
Commissioners voted 4-0 to award a contract to the construction firm McCownGordon for just over $57 million of work on the ...
Ames, Iowa — Iowa cornfields already have a reputation for building it and they will come.
Lawrence and Douglas County leaders in Iowa for a chamber of commerce intercity visit on Tuesday weren’t interested in the baseball — "Field of Dreams" — version of that story. Instead, they ...
The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of Tuesday after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.
Politico obtained thousands of pages of chats among leaders of Young Republican chapters across the country. ...
Douglas County residents will be able to learn about how to engage in local, state and national policy efforts to strengthen food systems and reduce food insecurity in a workshop next week.
The free event will be held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23, in the Dreher 4-H building at ...
Douglas County commissioners will consider awarding money to a plan for a child care scholarship fund on Wednesday to help more low- and moderate-income families afford child care.
The goal is to help more working families – or those who want to enter the workforce – access child care ...
The increases city staff has proposed for water, stormwater and trash rates for 2026 and beyond are part of a trend of steady increases over the past several years, and one of the utility rates — for stormwater — has nearly doubled from 2019 to the present day.
The city posts utility rates ...