A mobile team specializing in de-escalating mental health emergencies in Douglas County responded to nearly 80% more incidents in 2024 than in 2023 thanks to a change that made it easier to access, county leaders heard on Wednesday.
The Douglas County Commission heard a presentation at its weekly meeting from the Emergency Communications Center and Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center staff regarding their ...
Douglas County commissioners will review a resolution to approve a $55 million bond sale for funding the renovation of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center and the construction of the new Public Safety Building.
County commissioners previously prepared an approximately $55 million bond sale – which is a type of debt – to finance the projects, as the Journal-World reported. Douglas County will use $25 ...
A statewide nonprofit that brings authors, speakers, historians and others to both large and small communities across the state is now operating on a week-to-week basis after being impacted by federal funding cuts ordered by the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency.
The future existence of Humanities Kansas is at risk after the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, demanded deep cuts to staff and ...
Local leaders in a webinar said the things that Kansas needs the most are child care, health care, food security and housing, and all of those things are on the chopping block of federal funding cuts.
Women for Kansas held an online webinar on Monday to educate Kansans on how federal policy changes are affecting people locally and to share questions with local leaders. Organizers said the event came to be ...
In these bubbling basins, you'll find some of the hardest workers in Lawrence's water treatment system — microorganisms that tirelessly process millions of gallons of solid waste into nutrient-rich sludge.
The sludge, or biosolids, is a byproduct of human waste that's filtered out during the water treatment process, and it will eventually go on nearby farmland to enrich the soil there. Lawrence produces a lot ...
In Lawrence, officials don't think there's much risk of harmful chemicals getting into the nutrient-rich sludge that's produced in the city's wastewater treatment plants. But at least one other city in northeast Kansas, Olathe, is interested in taking extra precautions.
The sludge, or biosolids, is frequently applied to farmland in Kansas to enrich the soil, and Kansas does not have any regulations on this ...
