Douglas County commissioners approved changes to the county’s employee health care plan on Wednesday in order to keep the plan financially stable for the rest of the year.
As the Journal-World reported, in 2025, health care costs had exceeded the budget by $300,000, and current projections show that spending is continuing to rise. These increases are largely due to a significant increase in high-cost medical ...
Douglas County commissioners will make changes to the county’s employee health care plan on Wednesday as costs are projected to rise 14% next year.
The county’s new employee health care plan would start on June 1, 2026. From 2019 through 2025, the plan has performed well, often costing less than expected and has helped build up a strong fund balance, a memo in the agenda said. However, that trend has ...
Crews extinguished an apartment fire in one of the two buildings at Pinnacle Woods Apartments on Monday afternoon, and nobody was injured, first responders told the Journal-World.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responded to the fire just after 1:30 p.m. on Monday, and crews were on the scene for more than two hours. James Barkley, a captain with LDCFM, told the Journal-World that there was a small fire in ...
While Kansas lawmakers are advancing a bill that will develop rules for reusing treated wastewater as drinking water, the city of Lawrence isn’t currently exploring changes to where its drinking water comes from, a city official told the Journal-World.
House Bill 2462 is a water policy bill that requires the state to develop rules allowing wastewater to be reused as drinking water after going through ...
A new Lawrence Affordable Housing Study finds that over half of renters and many homebuyers cannot afford current prices, as housing construction lags well below pre-pandemic levels.
The city has been working on a new Affordable Housing Study to update its understanding of the local housing market and affordability needs, particularly in light of how conditions have changed since the last major analysis in ...
Updated at 6:36 p.m., Thursday, March 2, 2026.
Hundreds of local residents want Sheriff Jay Armbrister to oppose a bill on how much sheriffs must cooperate with ICE agents, but the sheriff is backing the bill.
Armbrister told the Journal-World on Tuesday that he is supporting the bill because he is confident that it will give his office the legal backing to maintain current practices, which involve only ...
