Lawrence Boys & Girls Club member Arabella Gipp may not have won the Southwest Region Youth of the Year contest in Dallas this week, but she told the Journal-World the experience meant a lot to her nonetheless.
Gipp, a student at Lawrence High School, represented the state at the regional contest this week. She was up against seven fellow youth representatives from Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, ...
De Soto resident Courtney Tripp filed this week as the first Democratic candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives’ newly created District 117.
Tripp joins Republicans Bob Parsons, of Lawrence, and Adam Turk, of Shawnee, on the primary ticket.
The new District 117 currently doesn’t have an elected representative living within its borders. The district will represent the southern portion of Eudora ...
The Watkins Museum of History and the Ballard Community Center have partnered for a program featuring educational games and crafts for children one day a week through most of the summer.
Every Wednesday in June and July, Ballard Center staff will bring a group of 5- and 6-year-old students to the museum for an hour of activities, themed around the colors of the rainbow.
A group of six of those children was ...
A Democratic candidate filed Wednesday to run against incumbent U.S. Congressman Tracey Mann in Kansas’ 1st Congressional District.
James “Jimmy” Beard, of Garden City, announced his candidacy for the seat in a news release Wednesday afternoon. Mann, a Salina Republican, took office in the U.S. House of Representatives at the beginning of last year, after two-term incumbent Roger Marshall gave up the seat ...
Douglas County Commission candidate Justin Spiehs said during Wednesday’s County Commission meeting that he viewed an outgoing commissioner's resignation as a "scalp to collect."
Spiehs, who is running as a Republican for the commission's 1st District, used the meeting's public comment period to make the comment about Commissioner Shannon Portillo and several other officials in local governments. Portillo ...
Douglas County leaders approved a recommendation to end the county’s COVID-19 disaster declaration, which had been in effect since March 17, 2020, at their meeting Wednesday night.
That approval comes about a week after the county’s Unified Command team, which was formed to respond to the pandemic, elected to demobilize.
County Emergency Management Director Robert Bieniecki and Deputy Director Jillian ...
