"There's a toxic culture at Haskell, period." This assessment by Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, D-New Mexico, was repeated in varying words over and over Tuesday in the nation's capital — by witnesses and lawmakers alike — during a bipartisan hearing that was sparked by a recent federal ...

Evan Korynta thinks about sidewalks all the time. In 2007, Korynta was diagnosed with a rare soft tissue cancer. Unsuccessful chemotherapy treatments led to his left leg, hip and the left side of his pelvis being amputated. Although Korynta has been cancer-free since June 2007, he has used a ...

Mayor Bart Littlejohn signed a historic proclamation Thursday morning formally establishing Tocopilla, Chile, and Lawrence as sister cities with a focus on a commitment to transitioning away from fossil fuels. The agreement between Lawrence and Tocopilla, a city of about 25,000 along the coast ...

A new exhibition at the Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum will tell the story of how the construction of Clinton Lake in Douglas County and an artificial lake in Oklahoma displaced Indigenous people and other communities in those areas. The Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum received ...

When Google first selected Kansas City, Kansas, as the pilot city for its new high-speed internet service, Google Fiber, back in 2011, a lot of hype surrounded the novel development. Thirteen years later, now that city commissioners have approved a local ordinance that gives Google Fiber the ...

Last Tuesday, when dozens of current and former firefighters showed up at Lawrence City Hall, there was no accident, no smoke, nothing on fire. But was there an emergency? If you ask the firefighters, there certainly was. They were at the Lawrence City Commission meeting because of a budget ...