After Tuesday’s election results, all eyes are on President-elect Donald Trump, but Kansas’ senior Republican senator urged those who are nervous about the next four years to place some faith in Congress.
“What I hope to see is a Congress that does its job,” U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, said in a brief interview with the Journal-World on Thursday.
Moran said Congress has been too lax in the past ...
If you could have just one statistic to understand how good it is to be in the air-conditioning industry, it might be this one: About 3 billion people live in the hottest regions of the world, but currently only about 8% of them have air conditioning.
As new middle-class economies emerge in places like China, India, Africa and elsewhere, the industry estimates it will need to produce the equivalent of five air ...
Two large detention basins and acres of native grass are designed to be the main defenses against flooding that could be caused by a controversial solar farm development proposed for northern Douglas County, neighbors were told Wednesday.
The developers of the proposed Kansas Sky Energy Center hosted an open house Wednesday evening at the Union Pacific Depot to publicly unveil the proposed stormwater plan for ...
Story updated at 9:10 a.m. Nov. 6:
Since it seems no one is claiming that this election was stolen — perhaps an overlooked election victory from Tuesday — it seems accurate to say that America has moved towards Donald Trump.
So too for Lawrence and Douglas County.
Douglas County continues to be one of the strongest bulwarks against Trump in America — but its wall isn’t as thick as it used to be. ...
More than 200 people per month are coming into Douglas County’s Treatment & Recovery Center for mental health crisis, and most are voluntarily seeking treatment or arriving with a friend or family member, city commissioners were told Tuesday.
Just a handful of patients per week are being brought in by local law enforcement agencies, but the impact the center has on the work of police officers goes far ...
In the center of Lawrence, Democrats maintained their dominance in races for the Kansas Legislature. But on the edge of the city and in the rural areas around it, Republicans landed several legislative victories on Tuesday.
Incumbent Marci Francisco easily kept her Lawrence seat in the Kansas Senate, and a Topeka Democrat handily won a seat in a new Senate district that includes northwest Lawrence and east ...
