It has long been known that a cemetery is one of the surest forms of tax relief, but come to find out such relief doesn’t have to come with a tombstone. The volunteer boards who run the local cemeteries do a pretty good job of controlling taxes in their own right.
The Journal-World reviewed every proposed property tax rate in Douglas County ahead of upcoming budget hearings to see which local governments ...
A spend down of Douglas County government’s more than $100 million in reserve funds indeed began in 2025, but it didn’t reach into the county’s broadest fund, recently released financial statements show.
The county’s general operating fund — the account that funds day-to-day operations of county government — saw its reserves grow by more than $3 million last year and began 2026 more than $5 million ...
The annual Jayhawk migration is set to begin this week, and per usual, it will involve lots of vehicles and crammed city streets near residence halls across the University of Kansas campus.
KU students will start arriving en masse at KU dormitories on Tuesday, with the heaviest traffic days expected to be Wednesday and Thursday, KU officials said.
In general, Lawrence motorists should expect slow moving ...
A portion of the Bowersock Dam on the Kansas River has failed, but it is not creating any flooding concerns. Quite the opposite, actually.
The dam, which sits on the stretch of the Kaw that runs alongside downtown Lawrence, isn’t a flood control dam but rather helps provide water for Kansas’ only hydroelectric power plant, the Bowersock Mills & Power Company.
The dam, though, does more than that. It ...
The KU-run Hilltop Child Development Center has lost more than half its teachers and students in the last year, and now university leaders are questioning the viability of the more than 50-year-old center.
A group of the center’s employees, parents and past parents, though, are questioning something else: The center’s executive director, who has been in place for about a year.
The group earlier this month ...
Never doubt the level of curiosity among University of Kansas researchers. Sometimes they are interested in finding out what happened in a time period as small as a few millionths of a second.
If they happen to be the first few millionths of a second in the creation of our universe, even better.
A KU team indeed has been chosen to work on that task and has received a $1 million federal grant to build equipment ...
