A Douglas County judge has ruled that planning commissioners produce a feasible set of documents within a month in the ongoing legal dispute over a proposed 159-megawatt solar farm in northern Douglas County.
On Tuesday, Judge James McCabria ruled that Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commissioners who received subpoenas in a case involving the Kansas Sky Energy Center move forward with a production of ...
Lawrence – along with other cities in the area – is currently experiencing a multi-day, late-summer heat wave with the heat index reaching 105 degrees Fahrenheit most days.
Wednesday will bring sunny and hot weather conditions, with the high near 97 degrees Fahrenheit and the low around 78, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. On Thursday, conditions will be similar with a high close to 96 ...
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has officially settled into the new Public Safety Building next to the county jail, providing an expansive space for staff.
The department is occupying the main level of the new Public Safety Building – right next to the Douglas County Correctional Facility, 3601 E. 25th St. The floor has 25,565 square feet of space as well as a garage that will eventually house all of ...
The Kansas Statewide Homeless Coalition used a new app and other safeguards to ensure this year’s point-in-time count accurately captured homelessness in Douglas County on a single night in January – and here’s how they did it.
This year’s “point-in-time count” was conducted by the Kansas Statewide Homeless Coalition – a Lawrence-based nonprofit that coordinates homelessness efforts across ...
A new housing development will help transition families into long-term housing, and it will be welcoming its first families in mid-September.
Dozens of people attended Tuesday afternoon’s ribbon cutting ceremony for the new transitional housing development known as Promise Heights. The apartments are near the corner of Tennessee and Ninth streets and will serve six families who had recently been ...
Douglas County commissioners unanimously voted to approve the 2027 budget on Wednesday, and a couple commissioners think it would have been possible to achieve a revenue-neutral rate.
The 2027 budget includes approximately $199.6 million with a mill levy – or property tax rate – of 40.286 mills, a 0.383-mill reduction compared to last year, as the Journal-World reported. One mill is equal to $1 per $1,000 ...
