Two Kansas National Guard tanker trucks have been hauling water to Lakeside Village, where the two water well pumps are currently submerged because of flooding at Perry Lake.
Jerry White, president of the Lakeside Village Improvement District in Jefferson County, said the residents living in the 150 homes that make up the community have been without running water for more than two weeks. Prior to receiving help ...
Back in 1964 Ben Boorem and his little sister, Liz, would swing by the Lawrence Journal-World after school and pick up an armload of newspapers and walk along Massachusetts Street selling them.
“We would take off with 25 papers and hustle. I remember they cost 7 cents back then, we would make 3 cents and give 4 cents to the Journal-World. On a good day when we were hitting it, we had to run back and get ...
Scouting a field of corn, Lowell Neitzel knelt down and gently turned over a tattered leaf of a plant as dark clouds were building in the northwest Thursday afternoon.
In the field south of the Lawrence Municipal Airport was some of the first corn he had planted a month and a half ago, and it barely skimmed the tall farmer’s ankles.
“If we had a normal season, the corn would be knee tall,” Neitzel said. ...
After Tuesday night’s heavy rain, Clinton Lake has hit a record elevation of 893.28 feet above sea level.
While it has broken the old record of 892.48 feet, set in 1995, R.J. Harms, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project manager at Perry and Clinton Lake, said there's a long way to go before water is released into the Wakarusa River.
“It crossed that mark late Tuesday night after the big rain and the ...
It's easy to find shops and restaurants on Massachusetts Street, but people can also see the natural world in downtown Lawrence if they know what to look for, says Ken Lassman, author of “Wild Douglas County.”
At 6 p.m. Friday at Sunflower Outdoor & Bike, 804 Massachusetts St., Lassman will offer tips on how to spot some wild critters, such as nighthawks and chimney swifts, while walking downtown, he ...
A Lawrence native was among the scientists in Paris earlier this month presenting a landmark report that the environment is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history.
Pamela McElwee, a 1988 Lawrence High School graduate and the first female Rhodes Scholar from the University of Kansas, was among the authors of the assessment report for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on ...
