The Lawrence Humane Society’s annual Clear the Shelter Day is scheduled for Aug. 23, when all adoption fees will be waived.
Over the last several years, Lawrence Humane has had anywhere from 70 to nearly 200 animals adopted on Clear the Shelter Day — part of a nationwide pet adoption campaign that is spearheaded by NBCUniversal in partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition.
On Saturday, adoptions for all ...
When he works to help preserve old and tattered battle flags from the Civil War, Tom Schmidt is doing what a Union soldier, in his final moments, exhorted his fellow Kansans to do: "Keep the flag to the front."
Schmidt, a Civil War reenactor from Eudora, has been hard at work with the Kansas Historical Society trying to re-energize a state program that helps restore historic flags. It's important to do this, he ...
City commissioners next week will consider increasing the guest tax on hotel or short-term overnight stays in Lawrence by 2% to capitalize on an increase in visitors expected next summer for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
On Tuesday night, commissioners will be asked to vote on potentially raising the transient guest tax from 6% to 8%. According to a city memo, the last time the city increased the guest tax rate was ...
The vibrant murals that will soon celebrate the story of La Yarda, the early 20th century Mexican American housing complex in Lawrence, remind artist Javy Ortiz of his own immigrant story.
While he was planning the public art project that will soon adorn part of the Lawrence Loop trail at Eighth and Delaware streets, Ortiz, a Mexican-born artist based in Lawrence, got to sit down with some former residents of ...
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday voted to approve a variety of financial incentives that would allow the $300 million second phase of the University of Kansas' Gateway project to begin at 11th and Mississippi streets on the northern edge of campus.
The commissioners voted to approve five items that will provide KU a major package of financial incentives worth around $94.6 million for the second phase of ...
Updated at 12:10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11
A Douglas County judge on Monday cut in half the $1.5 million bond of a speech pathologist accused of molesting multiple children last winter at a Lawrence Elementary School.
The bond is now $750,000 cash or surety for defendant Mark Gridley, 61, who will also be required to have GPS monitoring but will not be under house arrest. Gridley is also excluded from all school ...
