Panelists shared during a town hall how many pieces of House Bill HR1, otherwise known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” will have negative consequences across Douglas County, especially in the health care space and at Haskell Indian Nations University.
The panel was hosted Thursday night at the Lawrence Public Library by Lawrence Indivisible, a local chapter of the national Indivisible movement, which is a ...
Plans for a $25 million heart center on LMH Health's main campus will first require a million dollar remodeling at LMH Health's West Campus.
In preparing for the renovation of the LMH Health Heart Center next year, the hospital took a key first step by filing plans to renovate part of its west campus to relocate one of its clinics.
LMH filed plans with the City of Lawrence last week to renovate nearly 4,000 ...
A partnership between The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas and the National Council for History Education (NCHE) earned a federal grant that aims to support Kansas elementary and middle school history teachers.
The council, with the help of the Dole Institute, received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education that will support teachers who teach third to eighth graders ...
The Kansas Department of Transportation has added a stretch of state highway in southeastern Douglas County and northeastern Franklin County to a list of upcoming road modernization projects.
The expansion of Kansas State Highway 33 was one of nine projects that Gov. Laura Kelly’s office and KDOT announced last week had been added to the state’s Eisenhower Legacy Transportation Program construction ...
Several years ago, members of the University of Kansas’s Hall Center for the Humanities were brainstorming ways to share their research that were more interactive and engaging — not just long talks in stuffy lecture halls.
Andrew Hodgson, the assistant director for the Hall Center, recalled that someone suggested the idea of a haunted house. That idea evolved into the first “Haunting Humanities” event ...
If you were looking for someone to direct a Tony-Award winning musical comedy, Theresa Buchheister wouldn't be the obvious choice.
Buchheister, a University of Kansas theater graduate, is not really a “musical theater person” and mostly worked in avant garde theater in New York City for the past 20 years.
But “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is, in its own way, an unconventional sort of ...
