Although rent and utility assistance funding has flowed freely into Douglas County in the past year, the well of federal relief programs is drying up.
From March of 2021 to this month, the Kansas Emergency Rental Assistance program distributed just over $19 million in rent and utility assistance to Douglas County. But that program is ending, with the nonprofit Kansas Housing Resources Corporation shifting the ...
The canvass of Douglas County’s Nov. 8 general election on Monday morning revealed that the official tally of ballots cast was slightly less than the turnout in the August primary.
Douglas County voters cast 47,561 ballots earlier this month, good for 57.9% of the county’s more than 82,000 registered voters. But that number didn’t quite match the record-breaking 47,657 ballots cast in August, which saw ...
Dan Partridge, who has served as the director of Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health for more than 15 years, is set to retire.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health Board discussed Partridge’s retirement during its Monday meeting. Partridge submitted his resignation letter to the board last Thursday, but his final day is still a while off. He notes in the letter that he intends for June 15, 2023, to be ...
Lawrence resident Stephan Pro is remarkably humble when speaking about his finish in this year’s New York City Marathon.
But it’s hard to overlook just how impressive his placement was — 120th out of nearly 48,000 total participants, and eighth in the 40- to 44-year-old age group. Pro ran the race in two hours and 41 minutes on Nov. 6.
“I certainly ran well; I was hoping to run a little faster,” ...
At the start of 2023, builders in Douglas County will have options allowing for tiny-home construction, and new homes will have more thorough energy-efficiency requirements.
That’s because the Douglas County Commission approved updating the construction codes for unincorporated areas of the county to align with the 2018 International Code Council series of construction codes in June, and they’ll officially ...
Dr. George Thompson, the executive and medical director of Douglas County's troubled behavioral health crisis center project, has stepped down from his position, the nonprofit guiding the center announced in a news release Friday.
According to the release from the nonprofit, Behavioral Health Partners, new interim leadership is already in place to fill Thompson’s position, and there is a plan to permanently ...
