Whenever students end up returning to classrooms, a group of local quilters hopes to make them a bit safer from the coronavirus by providing them with handmade face masks. Some members of the Kaw Valley Quilters Guild, a Lawrence-based club with more than 200 members, are hard at work this ...
City leaders are pursuing an outside study to help inform potentially fundamental changes to the role of the Lawrence Police Department, including proposals to move some funding and duties from police to social services. All of the specific issues the study will tackle aren't determined right ...
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, disease investigators in Douglas County had the time to contact people with positive cases of the virus and track their contacts. But as cases rose in the county in June and July, the job of contact tracing became more arduous. Since early July, the ...
The Lawrence school district is set to begin fall sports in August, despite not starting the academic year until after Labor Day. Julie Boyle, spokeswoman for the Lawrence school district, said Friday that the school district had decided it would follow the guidance of the Kansas State High ...
Story updated at 11:49 p.m. Monday The Lawrence school year will begin about three weeks later than originally scheduled, with fully remote learning, because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Lawrence school board on Monday unanimously approved pushing the start of the school year ...
The University of Kansas over the next fiscal year has budgeted for base tuition losses totaling more than $41.7 million as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to upend the landscape of higher education. A Journal-World analysis of the university’s budget for Fiscal Year 2021, which runs through ...
Much like other industries nationwide, the Douglas County arts and culture community has been slammed by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But leaders of local nonprofit arts and culture organizations said that the most challenging part about the pandemic is the uncertainty. “The problem ...
As the city seeks to set priorities for its budget, its leaders say their goals will include addressing systemic racial injustice and investing in the well-being of all Lawrence residents. At a special meeting of the Lawrence City Commission Saturday, commissioners worked on the city’s new ...
Masks joined caps and gowns as essential graduation attire Saturday at Lawrence's high schools, where seniors finally gathered for ceremonies that had been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Free State graduates gathered at their school's outdoor stadium Saturday morning, while Lawrence High ...
The budgeting philosophy of Lawrence’s new city manager could soon be put into action, and the first place some residents may notice the change is the growing total on their utility bills. City Manager Craig Owens is recommending about $90 million in capital and maintenance projects next ...
A massive influx of cash for coronavirus recovery is heading to Douglas County soon. But before the county can receive the money, it must craft a plan for how to use the funds and submit it to the state. To decide how the nearly $25 million of federal relief funding will be spent, Douglas ...
The University of Kansas on Friday afternoon released an employee guidebook for faculty and staff members related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which included new information on who can and cannot work from home, what personal protective equipment would be available, and more details for ...
Story updated at 4:53 p.m. Wednesday TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly plans to keep Kansas' K-12 schools closed until after the Labor Day holiday in September as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to increase in the state. Kelly announced the plan during a news conference Wednesday and ...
Story updated at 5:47 p.m. Wednesday: Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel has been sentenced to a year in prison for his scheme to collect fraudulent tax refunds from the City of Lawrence, and the judge is not recommending Fritzel be allowed to serve that sentence in his multimillion-dollar home ...
Updated at 5:46 p.m. Wednesday The University of Kansas will conduct COVID-19 saliva testing for all students, faculty and staff who return to campus for the fall semester, Chancellor Douglas Girod said in a video message Wednesday. The saliva test KU is planning on using in coordination with ...
Lawrence City Manager Craig Owens told city leaders that the debate about the city’s upcoming 2021 budget may stretch well beyond its typical summer timeframe, with significant changes likely to be made in the first quarter of next year. That’s because Owens is proposing a recommended ...
With about a month left before school is scheduled to begin, it is unclear whether Lawrence students will return to their school buildings this fall. Deputy Superintendent Anna Stubblefield said during the Lawrence school board’s meeting on Monday that the district has not yet made any ...
In the morning heat this summer, several Lawrence youths have been getting their hands dirty by taking care of a robust garden just outside of West Middle School. While the gardeners, ages 14 to 20, could be sleeping in like many of their classmates, some recently told the Journal-World why ...
Haskell Indian Nations University students were upset to see that their semester fees, which typically include housing, food and activity costs, will remain the same price for the upcoming online semester — and that the announcement came from the student newspaper instead of from the ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod on Wednesday issued a strong condemnation of new federal regulations on international student visas that bar those students from staying in the United States if their educational institution doesn't hold in-person classes in the fall semester ...