As Lawrence expands to the south with projects like the proposed New Boston Crossing, the landscape in its urban growth area is expected to change quite a bit with new residential and retail development.
But five years ago, the landscape southwest of Lawrence changed in a much more unexpected — and frightening — way.
At the end of July 2019, 8 to 10 inches of rain fell over the course of just eight hours ...
The Lawrence school board at its Monday meeting will be interviewing a firm to assist with the district's search for a permanent superintendent, whom the board hopes to have in place by the start of the next school year.
Board members will be interviewing representatives from McPherson & Jacobson LLC as a possible search firm to aid with tasks associated with selecting a new district leader.
The board ...
A peaceful walk with her dog led to Sandra Issa acquiring a tick bite — and, ultimately, to her having to stay away from red meat and dairy products.
“I removed the tick and didn’t think too much about it, and then I was having stomach problems,” Issa said.
“ … And then on the Fourth of July I ate part of a hamburger,” she said. “As the evening went on, I started thinking, ‘Wow, I don’t ...
Douglas County commissioners learned on Wednesday that only around 72% of the federal funding they distributed through the American Rescue Plan Act has been utilized, and they approved measures to maximize the money's impact before the end-of-the-year deadline to spend it.
In July 2022, the county awarded $23,747,378 in ARPA funding — which is emergency funding to help state and local governments respond to ...
Updated at 2:40 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7
In 2023, the entrepreneurship group Forward Cities visited Douglas County with a big question: What can the community do to better support its entrepreneurs of color?
Now, more than a year after talking with local Black, Indigenous and people of color who run their own businesses here, Forward Cities is back, and it plans to share its results in a special video ...
A plan will soon be developed for conserving the Wakarusa River Corridor and protecting resources in the area for future generations, and Douglas County commissioners will hear more on Wednesday about how that effort is going.
The presentation from open space leaders will focus on the conservation of the Wakarusa River Corridor, from the Clinton Lake dam to Eudora. The conservation plan will be called the ...
