Updated at 11:23 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 8 Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday rejected an amendment to the joint city-county comprehensive plan that now will complicate how a major development project along the South Lawrence Trafficway can move forward. On Wednesday, the County Commission ...

Douglas County leaders will soon consider a new process for enforcing the county's animal code — specifically, for handling cases where people with animals that are dangerous or a nuisance have repeatedly failed to comply with the rules. At their meeting on Wednesday, county commissioners ...

While Bishop Seabury students in Sonja Czarnecki’s Global Studies class were recently learning about the United States' economic ties with China, they got to hear from a Kansas politician who has some very pointed opinions on the subject — and with whom many of them might not agree: Kansas ...

A bill in the Kansas Legislature is aimed at stopping people from using artificial intelligence to create false political attack ads. The bipartisan bill would prohibit political campaigns from using AI-generated media to create “false representations” of candidates or public officials in ...

Some employees in the Lawrence school district will soon be equipped with high-tech badges that can call for help in a variety of situations — from a fight between students to a threat requiring a school lockdown — with just a few clicks of a button. The badges are part of a system called ...

The day 15-year-old Brianna Higgins was fatally shot, she woke up full of energy — and wanted to make sure her family knew it. Brianna's older sister, Iona Wakole, recalls that morning, Jan. 19, when the rest of the household awoke to Brianna belting out one of her favorite songs by R&B ...