Story updated at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31: As 2026 rolls in, the city's annual distributions to its economic development partners are rolling out — but they're smaller than last year's because of budget cuts. In December, the Lawrence City Commission approved the funding agreements with ...
The Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority will soon begin accepting applications for its new affordable apartment complex for seniors, Delmar Place. LDCHA will start taking applications on Monday, Jan. 5, for the new apartments at 2129 Clinton Parkway. Applicants must be low-income, over ...
Story updated at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30: The cigarette butt was still warm when Lawrence Police Department Detective Mike McAtee picked it off the ground of the crime scene in Naismith Valley Park. But more importantly, it was still covered with DNA. The detective was on the scene Aug. ...
Before the Kansas Legislature begins its work in 2026, Douglas County organizations will get to share their requests and concerns at local lawmakers' annual pre-session hearings on Jan. 8. The hearings at the University of Kansas' Dole Institute of Politics will feature nine lawmakers whose ...
When National Guard Soldier Sarah Beckstrom died on Thanksgiving, the day after being shot in Washington, D.C., KU graduate Baset Azizi spent a sleepless night wondering what he could do to ease the pain "even just a little" — of Beckstrom's grieving family, of her military brethren and of ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done. The switch would move marijuana away from its ...