As a polar vortex has kept Lawrence in its grip, the city's Homeless Solutions Division says it has been able to provide warmth and shelter to anyone seeking it, and that includes pets.
"Nobody has died, and that's pretty amazing," the division's director, Misty Bosch-Hastings, told the Journal-World Wednesday, when high temperatures remained in the single digits with below-zero wind chills. It's not something ...
A collective of Haskell Indian Nations University students, alumni and former faculty are calling for the reinstatement of the recently fired — for the second time — cross country coach who has for years been at the center of investigations into the university.
The students want coach Clay Mayes, who was laid off Friday along with dozens of other Haskell employees, to be reinstated immediately. Mayes, as ...
A significant number of Haskell Indian Nations University employees were laid off Friday pursuant to an order by President Donald Trump to cut the federal work force, the Journal-World has learned.
According to a source close to Haskell, around 38 employees have been let go, out of approximately 150 employed there. Those people include a range of personnel. At least seven people on the list were instructors. ...
For the first time since a pair of public commenters began routinely disrupting government meetings in Lawrence, an official has mentioned the possibility of terminating public comment, at least temporarily.
On Monday night, Lawrence school board president Kelly Jones — after an approximately 30-minute standoff with commenter Michael Eravi, who was refusing to obey board rules — said that the time had come ...
In his two decades of living in one of the world’s great party cities, Steve Mock has seen his share of revelry, but no celebration is likely to be as special to him as the one this weekend at a bar he partners in near the New Orleans Superdome, where Super Bowl LIX will be played Sunday evening.
Mock, a Lawrence native and lifelong Kansas City fan, has the venue — the Pour House on Girod Street — decked ...
Kelsey King gave a queenly wave as she floated down the red carpet Friday night on the arm of a handsome military escort, while Stacy Tucker, a little more Lady Gaga than Lady Diana, gave raucous fist pumps as she sashayed to her throne.
Those two and 74 others from the Lawrence area were the honored guests Friday night at River City Church, where more than 100 volunteers threw a giant party in their ...
