With Lawrence students set to return to classrooms following summer vacation, officials with Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health say it’s difficult to tell yet just how much that might lead to an increase in local coronavirus numbers.
“I am very curious about what the start of school will bring for our COVID numbers, especially with the (University of Kansas) students being back,” Sonia Jordan, the ...
Douglas County leaders were unanimous Wednesday in supporting a project that would increase the quality of internet access in rural areas of the county.
At its meeting Wednesday, the commission approved internet provider Midco's request for $5,000 to support a grant proposal that Midco plans to submit to a state office. If Midco ultimately is successful in securing the grant, the company’s project would ...
The City of Lawrence will participate in a nationwide initiative to monitor infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and monkeypox in wastewater, the city announced this week.
The study will measure viral genetic material in wastewater at the Kansas River Wastewater Treatment Plant as part of the Wastewater Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network — or WastewaterSCAN — that is being led by researchers with Stanford and ...
Douglas County leaders will decide this week whether to contribute toward a local internet provider’s bid at improving broadband internet access in two rural areas of the county.
Internet provider Midco is asking the Douglas County Commission to provide $5,000 in support of a grant proposal to the State Office of Broadband Development’s Capital Projects Fund Program. The commission will decide whether to do ...
Canvassing of the Aug. 2 primary election results in Douglas County confirmed on Monday a record-breaking voter turnout.
In total, canvassers counted 47,657 ballots. That’s 58.5% of the county’s 81,418 registered voters — and significantly more than the 29,028 ballots cast in the last primary election in 2020.
Even on the night of the election, Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew told the Journal-World ...
Lawrence Habitat for Humanity was one of a number of housing agencies selected to receive a portion of Douglas County’s American Rescue Plan Act pandemic aid money last month, and it plans to use its share to kickstart what the agency calls a “first of its kind” project in Lawrence.
County leaders ultimately granted the homebuilding nonprofit $850,000 during the ARPA allocation process in July, which ...
