The Senior Resource Center for Douglas County is warning about scammers posing as someone with the center and claiming to be selling burial plots, and it wants to advise residents on how to avoid being scammed.
Megan Poindexter, the executive director of the SRC, told the Journal-World the center was first notified about the scam this week by one of the center’s clients who called about it. Although the ...
For years, multimodal transportation advocate Bill Steele says, Lawrence has lagged behind some of its peers on bike infrastructure. It's spent more money on projects for cars, he said, and its streets are "overbuilt."
But he and other members of the Sustainability Action Network think they have a fix: Just build city streets a little less for cars — sometimes with fewer motor vehicle lanes — and add a new, ...
Federal oversight of Haskell Indian Nations University hasn’t gone well, a top official with the Bureau of Indian Affairs told a congressional committee on Tuesday, and added the agency likely would be supportive of Haskell becoming more independent.
Scott Davis, the Department of Interior’s acting assistant secretary of Indian Affairs, told a joint oversight committee of the U.S. House of Representatives ...
Several dozen Lawrence residents gathered near the corner of Tennessee and Ninth streets to celebrate the groundbreaking for a transitional housing development.
The groundbreaking was for a new six-unit development from the Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church’s Hope Project that will serve as transitional housing for families who had recently been homeless. A three-story residential building will replace a ...
Multiple Federal legislators from Kansas officially introduced a bill that would remove control of Haskell Indian Nations University from the federal government and let the university govern itself while still providing federal funding.
U.S. Senators Jerry Moran, R-Kan.; Roger Marshall, R-Kan. and Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., and U.S. Representatives Tracey Mann (KS-01) and Derek Schmidt (KS-02) introduced the ...
When she was younger, listening to jazz music with her dad on the way to school in Lawrence, Mia Rasmussen knew that just a short drive away, Kansas City had a thriving jazz scene that became world famous.
But she did not know why it was centered on just one place: 18th and Vine.
In 2023, when her 11th grade history teacher at Bishop Seabury Academy, a private school in Lawrence, had assigned the entire grade ...
