The holiday season can be a time of eating tasty treats and lounging around, often leading to weight gain and a plan to shed the pounds with a New Year’s resolution. Luckily for Douglas County residents, the Kansas State Parks are offering a way to get a head start on those resolutions with a hike on the first day of the year. The state parks will host “First Day Hikes” events on Jan. 1 at 19 locations ...
A Lawrence man was arrested Friday afternoon for allegedly hitting someone in the face with a metal object. The Lawrence Police Department arrested Micheal Jerome Jordan, 50, at 3:10 p.m. Friday on suspicion of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, which is a felony. Officer Shawn Gross, a spokesman for the Lawrence Police Department, said the police were dispatched to the 700 block of West 25th Street ...
Rick and Stacy Gash, an entrepreneurial couple in the Wichita area, want to help make Kansas a leading state in the production of hemp, a newly legalized crop. Hemp, a cannabis-plant cousin to marijuana, was once a major commercial crop in the United States, used mainly for making fabric and rope. Although it contains less THC, the chemical in cannabis that causes a high, the plant was criminalized nationwide ...
Updated at 4:15 p.m. Friday Two local lawmakers will again serve as the highest-ranking Democratic leaders of Kansas House of Representatives committees during the 2019 legislative session, and another will serve on a newly created committee focusing on rural issues. Democratic state Reps. Barbara Ballard and Dennis "Boog" Highberger, both of Lawrence, will serve as ranking minority leaders for the social ...
Lawrence residents may notice significantly lower electric bills this month. As part of an agreement approved by the Kansas Corporation Commission last summer, utility customers will begin seeing credits on their bills that reflect savings that Westar Energy will realize as a result of recently enacted federal tax cuts and a merger of Westar and Kansas City Power & Light. The credits were to begin at the ...
Lawrence residents hoping for a white Christmas will have to hope for it next year, said Matt Wolters, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Topeka. The forecast for the Lawrence area over the next week is expected to be mostly sunny with highs in the mid-40s. Although snow is common in Kansas during winter, which officially begins Friday, a white Christmas is not. The area hasn’t received ...