This month, the Watkins Museum of History is celebrating its 50th year, but it comes at a time when federal changes threaten its very existence.
Changes from the federal government have upended the museum’s operations. Steve Nowak, the museum’s executive director, said the museum has seen a drop in funds from federal sources of nearly 10%. At the same time, federal grant criteria have changed to be more ...
As the federal shutdown threatened the largest food assistance programs in the country, local donors stepped up to save one local effort for at least several more weeks, leaders of the Lawrence Farmers Market said.
Claire Wineman, the market manager for the Lawrence Farmers Market, said the market was able to raise funding from the “generous community” to support its “Double Up Protein Bucks” program ...
While the threat of federal food benefits halting for nearly 190,000 Kansans could become a reality on Saturday, Douglas County health officials say there's a similar program that supports women and young children that will be able to operate as usual for now.
The federal government shutdown, which began Oct. 1, could cause the funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, to dry up on ...
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 ...
