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 ...
Douglas County is using a consultant to conduct a review of Consolidated Fire District 1 to ensure its long-term effectiveness in serving 228 square miles within the unincorporated parts of the county.
The county has hired international consulting firm Emergency Services Consulting International to review the district's structure, programs and service delivery. The review, which includes meetings with ...
A river's health has big downstream effects on the people and places that rely on it — and in Kansas and around the world, many rivers are getting sicker every day.
They're carved up by dams and swollen and shrunken by climate change, and the ecosystems they support are in the middle of a biodiversity crisis. And all of this has implications for the quality of the water in these rivers — and the safety of ...
Douglas County commissioners have approved a rezoning request for a landscaping business in an area along the Kansas Turnpike that has long been eyed by economic development leaders for industrial uses.
On Wednesday, county commissioners unanimously approved a request to rezone a portion of land — approximately 18 acres — to the east of the intersection of East 900 Road and North 1800 Road from AG-1, or ...
Douglas County staff wants to get the Sheriff's Office's operations into the new Public Safety Building on a faster timeline, and county commissioners will consider accelerating the planning process for that at their meeting this week.
On Wednesday, the commissioners will consider amending the county's agreement with Treanor Architects to add the design work for the interior of the Public Safety Building’s ...
After a career spanning about four decades and a double hip replacement, many athletes would be eyeing retirement, instead of competing in a new event for the first time on a global stage.
Not Lawrence's Brady Tanner.
Brady, who has won multiple gold medals in national and world competitions in his roughly 40 years in Special Olympics, recently traveled to Italy for his return to the Special Olympics World ...
