Before the sun was fully up Thursday, many Lawrence shoppers were already lining up outside the new Costco for a chance to buy in bulk and enough samples to turn a quick grocery run into a morning outing.
Hundreds of customers — many of them calling out of work for Costco’s opening — steered their oversized carts through wide aisles lined with merchandise in the new 166,000-squarefoot warehouse, located ...
Douglas County commissioners adopted a budget for a program providing peer support services on Wednesday.
Launched in 2019, the Peer Fellows program employs people with lived experience of mental health challenges, substance use disorders and homelessness to help others navigate similar experiences.
The county’s budgeted costs in the proposed 2027 budget totals $231,000, as the Journal-World reported. It ...
Douglas County commissioners will consider adopting a budget for a program providing peer support services on Wednesday, which includes a position to help develop a “clubhouse model” for people with mental illness and substance use disorders.
The county’s Peer Fellows program employs people with lived experience of mental health challenges, substance use disorders and homelessness to help others navigate ...
A trial for a lawsuit challenging a proposed 159-megawatt solar farm in Douglas County has been delayed again until the summer of 2027, months after the project's conditional use permit is set to expire.
During a hearing on Tuesday, Judge James McCabria and the attorneys involved in the case revised the court schedule after ongoing disputes in discovery. The plaintiffs – Grant Township alongside affected ...
A seventh grade class from St. John Catholic School on an overnight class trip to Oklahoma City was involved in a crash Tuesday morning with no injuries reported, according to a statement from the school.
The crash occurred as students and chaperones were leaving their hotel in a K-State University-branded bus when it was hit by a semi near Interstate 35 in southeast Oklahoma City. There were 24 students and ...
A more than $135 million project to convert the Kansas Turnpike to a six-lane highway through Lawrence has won approval and may begin its more than two-year construction process this spring.
The Kansas Turnpike Authority announced on Tuesday that has approved a $136.6 million bid to add a third lane in each direction along a section of the turnpike — which also serves as U.S. Interstate 70 — in Douglas and ...
