Douglas County leaders will consider repealing and replacing an entire chapter of county construction codes this week.
If approved by the Douglas County Commission at its Wednesday meeting, construction codes for the unincorporated areas of the county would be updated to align with the 2018 International Code Council series of construction codes, effective Jan. 1, 2023.
Other changes would include a new ...
A year ago, Margo Russell decided she’d make it her mission to help ensure that kids in need can have a special, memorable birthday.
Russell is the leader of the Douglas County chapter of Box of Balloons, a nonprofit organization based in Wisconsin that provides children in families battling poverty or homelessness with custom-made boxes containing all the necessary supplies for throwing a birthday party. The ...
Lawrence High School student Arabella Gipp is set to compete in her third Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year contest this year at the end of the week, representing the state of Kansas at the 2022 Southwest Region Youth of the Year contest in Dallas.
On Friday, Gipp will compete against seven fellow youth representatives from Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and New Mexico. The winner of ...
Updated at 4:50 p.m. Monday
Douglas County Commissioner Shannon Portillo is set to leave Douglas County for a position at Arizona State University.
Portillo informed the Journal-World on Monday that she has accepted a position as the university’s director of the School of Public Affairs, and will begin in that role in October. After Portillo moves, she said her seat on the three-member commission would be ...
The search for Haskell Indian Nations University’s next president is set to continue indefinitely; a spokesperson with U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran’s office told the Journal-World Friday morning that the candidate who was offered the job has turned it down.
That spokesperson, Angela Lingg, told the Journal-World that Moran’s office reached out to the Bureau of Indian Education this week and learned that the BIE ...
Elected officials from the local to the national level were on hand Thursday at the Cider Gallery in Lawrence as Midco announced a $30 million initiative to extend fiber internet access to Lawrence and its surrounding communities.
The initiative, which Midco is calling “Fiber Forward,” is set to begin this year in Lawrence, Eudora and Basehor in nearby Leavenworth County, in the form of internet speeds ...
