No specific wind energy project is on the horizon yet in Douglas County, but leaders on Wednesday approved a permit for something that could help determine whether a wind farm is viable: a meteorological evaluation tower.
At its meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission approved a temporary permit request from Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources to install the 60-meter tower on property in Marion ...
After voting earlier this month to expand the Douglas County Commission from three members to five, residents will get their first look Wednesday at some options for new commission district maps.
Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew is set to present four possible map options to the Douglas County Commission at its meeting on Wednesday. The commission is tasked with passing a new district map by Jan. 1, 2023, to be ...
The Lawrence Public Library is partnering with local housing experts to host a panel discussion about rental housing problems and solutions in early December.
The program, titled “Let’s Talk about Affordable Rental and Housing Solutions,” will bring together panelists from the Lawrence Community Shelter, the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority, the Sexual Trauma and Abuse Care Center, People’s ...
Lawrence resident Leland Perry is just a couple of months away from a milestone many folks don’t achieve — his 100th birthday.
Perry is one of the last few surviving World War II veterans in the area, and still as sharp as he’s always been. His milestone birthday is on Jan. 31, 2023, and he’s still full of stories about his life growing up in northern Kansas, serving overseas in the 1940s, and raising a ...
Two local affordable housing advocacy agencies have struck a new partnership with a Lawrence nonprofit specializing in conflict resolution, with hopes that they can work together to help prevent evictions before they happen.
They’ll try to make that a reality through free mediation services for tenants and landlords. The service is the product of a partnership between Douglas County’s Housing Stabilization ...
When the home at 805 Sunset Drive in Lawrence’s Hillcrest neighborhood went up for sale in 2020, couple Ashley McCaskill and Steve Rausch jumped at the chance to take a look.
McCaskill and Rausch actually viewed the five-bedroom, four-bathroom, midcentury modern home just for fun, as a way to get out of the house a few months into the coronavirus pandemic. But the 4,858-square-foot home, which was built in ...
