Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday approved the sheriff’s office's request to purchase an incoming mail scanner, something the office says is urgently needed to stop illegal substances from getting into the jail.
The commission at its regular meeting waived a bidding process and approved the purchase of the MailSecur scanner for $103,914.93. The device screens incoming documents to determine whether ...
It's hard to miss some of the big names buried in Oak Hill Cemetery — Lucy Hobbs Taylor, the first woman to graduate from dental school; many victims of Quantrill's Raid; and even KU coaching legend Phog Allen.
But there are plenty of names that you might overlook, because their headstones are covered in thick layers of lichen and pollutants that can be hard to remove.
It's a problem that Jonathan Appell of ...
Some funds for the Open Space Plan, which maps out Douglas County's approach for safeguarding and managing its natural and undeveloped lands, are being proposed to support Lone Star Lake Park and many more projects to come.
At the meeting on Wednesday, county commissioners will hear a presentation from the Open Space Team on how it plans to use its funding for open space planning and goals. In 2022, ...
The Lawrence school board tentatively approved an agreement with the teachers union for salary increases next school year, with the salary pool receiving a 4.077% increase.
The board members ratified a tentative agreement with the Lawrence Education Association (LEA) at Monday’s meeting, with the certified employees’ salary pool increasing by $1,920,218, which includes a $1,400 increase to their base ...
Below the surface of Lyon County, there are layers of rock and coal from hundreds of millions of years ago — but there might also be important materials that are essential for electric cars, solar panels and many other eco-friendly and high-tech products.
The Kansas Geological Survey wants to find out if those "critical minerals" are there. And that has meant drilling down thousands of feet and extracting a ...
A new exhibition at the Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum will tell the story of how the construction of Clinton Lake in Douglas County and an artificial lake in Oklahoma displaced Indigenous people and other communities in those areas.
The Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum received $15,000 from Humanities Kansas to fund a permanent exhibition, “Voices of the Valleys: A Parallel History of Clinton ...
