Books by authors of color have now been placed in Little Free Libraries throughout Douglas County thanks to a Martin Luther King Jr. Day service project by local AmeriCorps members.
Nancy Wiebe, one of the AmeriCorps members involved in the project, said the group was inspired to fill the library boxes across the county after a similar effort had taken place in Lawrence. As the Journal-World reported in August, ...
Four more Douglas County residents have died from COVID-19, according to the local health department’s update about the virus on Monday.
The new deaths, which bring the total number of COVID-19 fatalities in the county to 70, were a man and a woman in the 85-plus age range, a man in the 75 to 84 age range and a man in the 55 to 64 age range. Three of the four people who died had been hospitalized, according ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod asked a legislative committee on Monday to maintain the current level of state funding for higher education, saying that cuts proposed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly would worsen the university's already bleak financial picture.
Kelly's recommended budget would cut the state's funding for universities by $33 million, Kansas Board of Regents President and CEO Blake ...
The future of the University Press of Kansas is uncertain, according to an email sent to authors it has worked with.
The trustees of the University Press of Kansas have initiated an independent review of the press to propose direction for its future "amid significant financial challenges," an email sent on Friday stated. An external consultant, Richard Clement, will conduct a review of the press and is expected ...
Something in the back of the 46-year-old’s mind told her to Google the symptoms of a female heart attack.
Angie Loving woke up on the morning of Nov. 14, 2019, with heartburn, but figured it was just another stage of aging. And she'd had pizza and red wine the night before, she reminded herself.
The Lawrence resident felt fine at work throughout the day, but as she waited in the lobby of her eye doctor’s ...
Updated at 5:39 p.m. Friday
The University of Kansas is requesting an extension from the Kansas Board of Regents regarding the implementation of a controversial policy that critics say would imperil the tenure system at KU.
KU Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer wrote in a campus message Friday afternoon that the decision to ask for an extension came from "lengthy" meetings with KU leaders in administration and ...
