Last November, when Lawrence and Douglas County planning officials set their traffic safety targets for 2025, their target was to have under 8.3 fatal crashes in Douglas County. So far, the county is under that, with just five.
Now, they're considering a target for 2026 that looks a lot lower: 6.4 fatal crashes.
You might think that planners hope to see a drop in crashes because of the county's performance so ...
As someone who helps turn people into frogs, squirrels, hares and more, Jane Pennington might sound like a bit of a mad scientist.
And on Thursday, while preparing for Theatre Lawrence's annual costume sale, she really looks the part — showing off a wild white wig, white coat and bug-eyed goggles that were used in the theater's production of "Young Frankenstein" in 2024.
Pennington, the theater's ...
It's better known for folksy county fair activities, but on Saturday the Douglas County Fairgrounds will be hosting a very different kind of folk competition with a Scottish flair — the first Free State Highland Games.
Highland games are a style of traditional Scottish events that have taken place for centuries both in Scotland and around the world. They combine a festival-like atmosphere with contests of ...
The increases city staff has proposed for water, stormwater and trash rates for 2026 and beyond are part of a trend of steady increases over the past several years, and one of the utility rates — for stormwater — has nearly doubled from 2019 to the present day.
The city posts utility rates on its website at lawrenceks.gov/utility-billing/rates, and using snapshots of the page captured on Internet Archive, ...
Defense attorneys requested — and a judge denied on Friday — a new trial for a man who earlier this year was found guilty of murder in a downtown Lawrence shooting.
A jury in July found Nicholas Beaver guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Vincent Lee Walker on March 6, 2024, in front of the Lawrence Public Library. At trial, defense attorney Razmi Tahirkheli argued that Beaver was acting ...
A call comes in for a disturbance in Centennial Park. Lawrence police are on their way, but what dispatchers haven’t been told – and officers therefore don’t know – is that the suspect is armed with a baseball bat.
“We don’t want that to become an escalating confrontation,” Sgt. Drew Fennelly told the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday night.
And it didn’t – in part because police were ...
