A future Lawrence-based center that will provide mental health care and substance abuse treatment to children has its first director, which puts it on track for a 2026 opening.
Kristin Vernon, a licensed specialist clinical social worker, has been hired to become the first director of the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center’s youth recovery center, which will open in the former healthcare building near ...
It's not surprising that a retired university faculty member who's written a lot about water issues might write a book that starts in a dry riverbed.
What might be surprising: the human hand a couple of girls find in the riverbed.
That mystery, and a western Kansas county sheriff's quest to crack it, are the premise of "The Illusion of Simple" by Charles Jones, the retired director of KU’s Public Management ...
A Lawrence church, in appreciation of the people who protect and serve the community, has dedicated part of its building for the exclusive use of local first responders.
Velocity Church, 4000 W. Sixth St., which used to house a Hy-Vee grocery store, has created a unique space on its premises for firefighters, law enforcement officers, paramedics and emergency medical technicians.
The room, which was made ...
A documentary capturing one of Kansas City’s first Black police officers and the city’s first Black department director, Alvin Brooks, will premiere Wednesday at the Juneteenth Film Festival at the Screenland Armour Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri.
The film, “The Heroic True-Life Adventures of Alvin Brooks,” was written, produced and directed by Kevin Willmott, a professor of film and media studies at ...
The reconstruction project on Sixth Street still has a ways to go, and drivers can expect some new closures and restrictions in the coming weeks — as well as the reopening of a couple of downtown streets that have long been closed.
Starting on June 17, motorists will once again be able to turn onto Sixth Street from Kentucky Street, and the south side of the intersection of Sixth and Maine will also reopen. ...
To address local leaders' uncertainty about a Douglas County suicide prevention initiative, some funding will be reallocated from the agency that now runs it to help create a new leadership position at Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health.
The Douglas County Commission at its meeting on Wednesday unanimously approved moving up to $27,500 from Headquarters Kansas to LDCPH to help offset the costs of creating a ...
