The Kansas Department of Transportation awarded Douglas County a $1.4 million grant to replace a bridge northwest of Lawrence due to its aging concrete and limited load capacity.
The bridge – located on North 1800 Road, 0.76 miles west of East 1200 Road – was built in 1970 and carries traffic on North 1800 Road over Baldwin Creek northwest of Lawrence. The bridge had been selected for the State Fiscal Year ...
The League of Women Voters of Lawrence-Douglas County’s social media has been restored after staff was unable to access the accounts for a week.
According to a post on the nonprofit’s Facebook page, both its Facebook and Instagram accounts appeared to be restored as of Wednesday. This was after staff received notification on Sept. 11 of their accounts being suspended. In addition to expressing their ...
To give the City of Lawrence and Douglas County more time to figure out their next fire and medical services agreement, county commissioners on Wednesday approved an extension of the current agreement through the end of 2025.
The commission authorized County Administrator Sarah Plinsky to sign the extension of the county's joint agreement with the City of Lawrence that funds the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire ...
Douglas County commissioners at their weekly meeting will hear from open space leaders who want to not only tell but show area residents how easy it can be to put legal protections on land so that it won't be developed in the future.
On Wednesday, commissioners will hear about a partnership between Douglas County and the Kansas Land Trust. The partnership proposes to create in Douglas County two new ...
The League of Women Voters of Lawrence-Douglas County’s social media accounts have been suspended with election day less than two months away.
Sonja Czarnecki, president of League of Women Voters of Lawrence-Douglas County, told the Journal-World that the organization received notification from Facebook that the nonprofit’s page had been "suspended" for "violating community standards," particularly, ...
The Douglas County Courthouse is still in the midst of several renovations. The meeting chambers are anticipated to be completed by January — after a decision is made about how to handle a discovery found behind the dais backboard — but new masonry restoration work on the exterior of the building will begin in the coming weeks.
As the Journal-World reported, on Wednesday, Douglas County Commissioners signed ...
