With a multimillion-dollar federal grant, University of Kansas researchers will be studying a big idea for how farms might prevent crop diseases from spreading: Act less like a farm and more like a prairie.
Many farms are what's called a monoculture, where there are rows upon rows of the same kind of crop. If a pathogen affects one plant on the farm, it can easily spread to others close by, because they're all ...
A local health organization will be receiving funds from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas' statewide health and wellness initiative, and it hopes to use them for farmers market programs, anti-tobacco efforts in schools, community health resource navigators and more.
LiveWell Douglas County was one of 20 organizations in the state selected to participate in the current phase of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield ...
The Douglas County Commission unanimously approved two permits related to the expansion of Kansas Highway 10 on Wednesday, after a bit of discussion about whether waste from road materials would pose an environmental risk as it broke down.
The commissioners approved the conditional use permits, or CUPs, at their regular meeting on Wednesday. The permits are for a landfill to dispose of concrete, concrete ...
Shelter stays, jail beds, ambulance rides and ER visits: Homeless people in Douglas County used more than $5 million of these types of emergency services in 2023, and the average per-person cost may have been above $7,000.
That's according to a report released in October that the county compiled for the Kansas Housing Advocacy Network. It looks at records like jail bookings and hospital stays to try to ...
Douglas County commissioners at their Wednesday meeting will consider two conditional use permits tied to the ongoing Kansas Highway 10 expansion.
The expansion involves K-10 being widened from two to four lanes west of Lawrence. The conditional use permits, or CUPs, are for a landfill to dispose of concrete, concrete products, reinforcing steel, asphalt pavement, rock and uncontaminated soil, as well as for ...
Despite nearly a week's delay in getting back to school after winter break, Lawrence Public Schools officials told the school board it’s too early to determine whether make-up days will be used.
On Monday, Lawrence school board members were told that additional instructional time was included in the development of the school calendar with potential snow days in mind and April 21 as an inclement weather ...
