A problem as big and complicated as climate change is difficult to confront, but two Lawrence residents are starting earnest conversations about the topic throughout Kansas.
Filmmaker and clinical psychologist Stephen Lerner and fellow filmmaker Jim Jewell have teamed up for several documentary films in the past, and now they’re joining forces once again for a project called "Step by Step."
Starting in ...
The founder and longtime executive director of Theatre Lawrence, Mary Doveton, is planning to retire, the arts nonprofit announced in a press release Wednesday afternoon.
Doveton is set to remain with Theatre Lawrence through a transition to a new director, according to the release, and Theatre Lawrence has already begun a national search. Doveton will exit after leading the nonprofit for 45 years, having ...
Douglas County leaders on Wednesday granted their approval to commit millions of dollars in local funding, in partnership with the City of Lawrence, toward the future expansion of the South Lawrence Trafficway.
The Douglas County Commission voted unanimously to send a letter to the Kansas Department of Transportation indicating the county's willingness to match a portion of the $124,000,000 cost for what KDOT ...
Douglas County moved into a less-severe level of community coronavirus transmission on Tuesday, but also added another death to its tally, according to the county's latest COVID statistics update.
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s latest data showed that the county has verified its 140th COVID death, a man between 75 and 84 years old. Meanwhile, the statistics that measure the community transmission ...
The Douglas County Commission will soon consider partnering with the City of Lawrence to commit nearly $14 million in combined local funds toward further expansion of the South Lawrence Trafficway, one of several topics on their meeting agenda for this week.
The planned improvement would expand the west leg of the highway, a section of Kansas Highway 10 that runs along Lawrence’s southern border, to four ...
Haskell Indian Nations University mentioned a new interim president in a news release on Tuesday morning, but it’s unclear when such a change might have taken place or what that means for the university's search for a permanent leader.
A news release on Tuesday announcing a new vice president of academics includes a quote from Julia Good Fox, who is identified in the release as Haskell’s interim president. ...
