The Lawrence school board on Monday unanimously authorized the school district to develop and submit a grant application for funds to support students’ mental health, including the potential hiring of 16 social workers within the next few years. "It's a dream come true for me," board member ...

Next month, the Baldwin City school district is asking local voters to approve a $17 million bond proposal to expand and update classroom spaces at Baldwin High School and address safety and security concerns on the junior high and high school campus. Baldwin City voters will decide whether to ...

It was a brief journalism lesson Tuesday evening from Bill Kurtis, a Kansan who has had anything but a brief journalism career. Kurtis — who delivered the 2024 Dole Lecture to a capacity crowd of more than 200 people at the Dole Institute of Politics on the KU campus — has covered the ...

Four people were arrested and charged with murder and kidnapping over the weekend in connection with the disappearances of two women. Veronica Butler, 27; and Jilian Kelley, 39, of Hugoton, Kansas, were driving through the Oklahoma panhandle to pick up Butler's children for a March 30 birthday ...

Story updated at 7:50 p.m. Saturday, April 13: The 1,105-acre Kansas Sky Energy Center solar project no longer has much standing in the way of its construction on agricultural land in Grant Township after earning unanimous approval from the Douglas County Commission on Saturday ...

The editor of a small-town Kansas newspaper that had its newsroom raided by law enforcement urged journalists and the public on Thursday to become even more aggressive in standing up to government. “What happened to us was that somebody, politically, weaponized the police force, “ Eric ...