The federal agency that oversees Haskell Indian Nations University’s operations fulfilled a Freedom of Information Act request from the Journal-World Friday — nearly a year after the request originally was submitted.
That agency, the Bureau of Indian Education, acknowledged the FOIA request last year on May 3. That was around the same time the Journal-World was reporting on the lack of communication from ...
The Willow Domestic Violence Center is searching for a new leader, the Journal-World learned this week.
Megan Harrison, formerly known as Megan Stuke, the agency’s latest executive director, has left the position. Harrison confirmed the change to the Journal-World via email Thursday. The day prior, Beth O’Neill, the vice president of the Willow’s board of directors, also confirmed the change in ...
For the first time since Douglas County leaders signed off last year on the county’s new regulations for solar energy projects, an application for such a project is up for consideration.
At a joint meeting on Monday, the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission and Lecompton Planning Commission will be considering a conditional use permit application for “Stull Solar Farm,” located on ...
As Douglas County refines its tools for helping people with behavioral health crises, including a mobile response team and a special hotline, county leaders want even more data about the impact they're making.
At its meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission looked at a summary of six months' worth of data from the Douglas County Crisis Line and Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center’s mobile crisis ...
This week, Douglas County leaders will get a look at the first data collected for a pair of new county initiatives linked to the local behavioral health system of care: the Douglas County Crisis Line and Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center’s mobile crisis response team.
A six-month data review for the two services is on the agenda for Wednesday’s Douglas County Commission meeting. Specifically, that ...
The team working to plot out an Open Space Plan for Douglas County is beginning to seek community input, one of a number of steps in the process to craft the plan by as soon as 2024.
The county announced a suite of public engagement strategies rolling out now and in the coming months in a press release Tuesday. Ultimately, feedback gathered from here will help to inform the county’s broad policy guide for ...
