At the first of a series of election forums on tap this week, the candidates running for seats on the Lawrence City Commission answered questions about renewable energy, how they’d work collaboratively with other local governing bodies and more.
On Monday, the League of Women Voters of Lawrence hosted a candidate forum in partnership with the Lawrence Public Library. Four of the six candidates running for ...
Members of Lawrence's Indigenous community gathered on Saturday to remember the victims of Indian boarding schools that for more than a century sought to assimilate Native American children into white society — including Haskell Institute, the precursor to Haskell Indian Nations University.
Saturday was the National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools, and the memorial service at Central United ...
As the Nov. 7 general election approaches, the Journal-World asked the six candidates running for three seats on the Lawrence City Commission — incumbents Brad Finkeldei, Amber Sellers and Courtney Shipley, former commissioner Mike Dever, and newcomers Dustin Stumblingbear and Justine Burton — a series of questions related to affordable housing and homelessness issues.
The deadline to register to vote in ...
For the descendants of Union veteran Doc McWilliams, the booming sound of cannon fire that filled Oak Hill Cemetery on Saturday afternoon was more than just a Civil War reenactment — it was the sound of ceremony and celebration.
As the Journal-World reported, McWilliams — who was a member of the first Black regiment to see combat during the Civil War, the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry — had rested in an ...
Days after a Haskell Indian Nations University student publicly stated that reports of alleged sexual abuse on campus have gone ignored, Haskell’s leader has announced plans to create a new position and to revise the university’s policies related to sexual assault.
As the Journal-World reported, Haskell student Tierra Thomas told the Journal-World last week that after being assaulted by a fellow student in ...
A revised plan for 14 duplexes near a west Lawrence subdivision failed to earn a recommendation from the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission this week, and now the project can't go forward unless a supermajority of city commissioners are on board.
The Fall Creek Villas project returned to the Planning Commission Wednesday in another bid for approval, after having already been denied by the Lawrence City ...
