The deadline to file as a candidate for Lawrence City Commission, Lawrence school board and a variety of other elected offices in Douglas County communities is Monday at noon, and slates in all of the county's cities are starting to take shape.
Those who still wish to file for election may come to the Douglas County Elections Office, 711 W. 23rd St. in Lawrence, on Monday to fill out the paperwork, said Ed ...
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday will consider no longer live-streaming their meetings on YouTube and, instead, uploading recordings of meetings the next day.
The potential change comes after Gov. Laura Kelly signed a law in April that updated the Kansas Open Records Act and Kansas Open Meetings Act. The new law includes a provision that says any governing body or agency that “elects to live stream ...
Twenty employees with the City of Lawrence have been accepted for the voluntary early retirement program, which the city began offering as part of an effort to address the city’s budget shortfall.
At a City Commission meeting in April, city staff presented a budget that addressed a projected $6.6 million shortfall; that budget included cuts to 23 full-time positions. City Manager Craig Owens and Alley Porter, ...
When patients move into Cardinal Housing Network's new sober living home, Hannah Bolton will be thinking of someone who could relate to their struggles: her brother Sam.
Sam struggled with substance abuse off and on for years, Bolton, the founder and program director of Cardinal Housing Network, said at a ribbon-cutting for the group home at 1046 New Hampshire St. on Wednesday. Sometimes fighting back tears, ...
A community mural at the street level could be coming to the Old West Lawrence neighborhood, thanks to the help of a prominent local artist.
The Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission approved a proposal earlier this month to paint a mural near the Lawrence Community Nursery School, 645 Alabama St., right in the intersection of Alabama Street and Seventh Street.
The mural would be painted by Dave Loewenstein, a ...
On their mission to run all the way across Kansas from north to south, Jonathan Prosser and Sean Frost got chased by dogs, jumped over a creek, had to spend the night in a van because there were no hotels nearby.
And that was just the first day.
The two ultra-marathoners from Topeka, who are running both to challenge themselves and to raise money for charities in their hometown, should soon be reaching the ...
