Faculty and staff leaders were expected on Wednesday to release the totals of an informal vote on whether KU community members have confidence in Chancellor Doug Girod amid rising labor tensions. No such vote results emerged on Wednesday. Instead, Faculty Senate President Misty Heggeness — ...
If you thought we lived in the Information Age with 24/7 news, the internet, social media and AI, consider the fact that in the 19th century every city of any size had a dozen or more newspapers with multiple daily editions, and people routinely wrote (and retained) loads of letters in addition ...
The Cardinal Housing Network has opened its second supportive housing location in Lawrence for women in recovery and their children. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, Hannah Bolton, founder and program director of the Cardinal Housing Network, told a small crowd that the house’s ...
The City of Lawrence extended the closure of Ninth Street near downtown an additional block west to accommodate further construction. The city closed Ninth Street from Louisiana Street to Mississippi Street to traffic on Tuesday as part of the work on the Jayhawk Watershed Middle Reach Project ...
The Lawrence Mardi Gras Parade partied through Massachusetts Street on Tuesday.
Story updated at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17: A Lawrence organization called Sanctuary Alliance alerted the community on Tuesday that agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, were detaining individuals in Lawrence, and Douglas County's sheriff was sharply critical of ICE's ...