Douglas County Commissioner Gene Dorsey is concerned that a crisis is “imminent” at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center, and he thinks the county ought to provide some immediate financial assistance.
Dorsey made that request to fellow county commissioners at Wednesday evening’s meeting and was largely rebuffed, but he told the Journal-World Thursday morning that he’s undeterred. He said he will ...
A $5 million gift from a Lawrence couple has an expanded heart center at LMH Health on track to begin construction next year, hospital officials have announced.
Harry and Cindy Herington have committed $5 million to the heart center, which is expected to be a $25 million project on the eastern edge of LMH Health’s Maine Street campus in central Lawrence.
The expanded center will increase the number of ...
The large vacant lot about a block north of 19th Street and Haskell Avenue has had many plans over the years. While the site still doesn't have firm plans, it does have definite dirt piles.
Construction crews are installing infrastructure on the property, and an owner of the site said it is likely to become neighborhood housing, although a portion of it may include commercial uses.
That’s a bit different ...
Even with housing prices rising and construction activity falling, Lawrence found room for more than 560 new residents last year, according to the latest numbers from the Census.
But the new report also gave a glimpse at how Lawrence’s growth machine is shifting into a slower gear. Several significantly smaller cities — Andover, Lenexa, Merriam, Manhattan — all added more people than Lawrence did during ...
There will be pomp, there will be circumstance, and, of course, there will be the walk down the Hill when the University of Kansas’ commencement ceremony takes place on Sunday.
But there will be something else this year: A big screen for a big day.
KU’s commencement ceremony, just like last year, will take place in the partially renovated David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, which remains under ...
With tariffs and trade wars creating worries of extraordinary cost increases in households, students at the University of Kansas are likely to face a fairly ordinary 3% increase in tuition for the next school year.
It may be everybody else on campus who wants to buckle up for the unexpected.
“The amount of uncertainty is unprecedented,” Jeff DeWitt, KU’s chief financial officer, told the Kansas Board ...
