The Lawrence school board tentatively approved an agreement with the teachers union for salary increases next school year, with the salary pool receiving a 4.077% increase.
The board members ratified a tentative agreement with the Lawrence Education Association (LEA) at Monday’s meeting, with the certified employees’ salary pool increasing by $1,920,218, which includes a $1,400 increase to their base ...
Below the surface of Lyon County, there are layers of rock and coal from hundreds of millions of years ago — but there might also be important materials that are essential for electric cars, solar panels and many other eco-friendly and high-tech products.
The Kansas Geological Survey wants to find out if those "critical minerals" are there. And that has meant drilling down thousands of feet and extracting a ...
A new exhibition at the Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum will tell the story of how the construction of Clinton Lake in Douglas County and an artificial lake in Oklahoma displaced Indigenous people and other communities in those areas.
The Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum received $15,000 from Humanities Kansas to fund a permanent exhibition, “Voices of the Valleys: A Parallel History of Clinton ...
Douglas County commissioners concluded three days of budget hearings Tuesday with a smaller mill levy than originally proposed and the expectation that residents will see some tax relief.
As the Journal-World reported, by the close of Monday's second day of budget deliberations, commissioners had lowered the initially proposed mill levy, which is $1 per $1,000 of assessed value, of 44.208 mills to 41.298, a ...
At a special meeting on Tuesday, the Lawrence school board held two closed sessions about employer-employee negotiations and other personnel matters but did not take any action afterward.
According to the agenda for the special meeting, one of the executive sessions was to “discuss negotiations, pursuant to the exception for employer-employee negotiations under (the Kansas Open Meetings Act), with Cynde ...
Updated at 9:55 a.m. Tuesday, July 16
Douglas County commissioners are considering reducing the proposed mill levy by nearly 3 mills and, to that end, are looking to transfer several funds for their behavioral health partners to a mental health sales tax fund.
By the end of the county’s second day of budget deliberations on Monday, commissioners had reduced the originally proposed mill levy, which is $1 ...
