Testing for zinc levels in groundwater will be required at future solar projects in Douglas County, the County Commission decided at its meeting on Wednesday.
The commission voted 4-1 in favor of requiring the testing, with Commissioner Karen Willey opposed. The vote comes about a month after the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission recommended that the testing rule be approved.
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Douglas County commissioners at their Wednesday meeting are expected to determine the timeline for the Senior Resource Center's transition from a nonprofit agency into a county department, which will require nearly $220,000 in additional funding.
Commissioners will consider a transition happening by Oct. 1. A memo in the meeting agenda notes that although the full extent of funding the transition won't be clear ...
Lawrence school board members were given an updated timeline on Tuesday for the district's superintendent search, which included plans to hold candidate interviews in mid- to late February and announce a decision in March.
On Tuesday, the school board held a special meeting to review a report from the Kansas Association of School Boards regarding the search. Britton Hart of KASB told the board that he would ...
Even an activist as legendary as Martin Luther King Jr. needed someone to help him up sometimes, and that was never more true than when King was stabbed in the chest with a letter opener at a 1958 book signing in Harlem.
The attack, carried out by a woman struggling with mental illness, left King “a sneeze away from death,” as he put it. And in the hospital, fellow activist Howard Thurman had an important ...
If the debate season were over right now, Free State High School alumnus John Marshall and his University of Kansas debate partner Graham Revare would finish as the top team in the U.S.
In debate, KU debate director Scott Harris said, there's no formal poll of coaches or media that ranks teams like in sports programs. But Marshall, a junior at KU, and Revare, a senior, have amassed the best record in the nation ...
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 ...
