Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will consider renewing temporary permits for several meteorological testing devices that are associated with potential wind energy developments. All of the renewal requests come from NextEra Energy Inc., on behalf of Tower Associates LLC, and according ...
A Lawrence high school student died after a shooting Friday night in Olathe, according to a news release from the Olathe Police Department. Brianna Higgins, a 15-year-old sophomore at Lawrence High School, was driven to Olathe Medical Center by an unknown person around 11 p.m. Friday. Police ...
For area eighth grade students entering high school next fall, the path to earning a diploma will require more credits than that of their older classmates. The Lawrence school board on Monday unanimously approved a new set of requirements that increases the total number of credits required to ...
When it comes to major economic initiatives proposed by Eudora city leaders, all roads lead to the forthcoming arrival of the multibillion dollar Panasonic battery plant in neighboring De Soto. But how wide those roads will be and how fast traffic will move, so to speak, still isn’t clear in ...
What makes a story worth telling? To illustrate, Ira Glass does a magic trick. After a couple of attempts with an unwieldy object he grabbed because he did not have a coin, there is the sleight of hand, and the object seems to vanish and then reappear. “If you do it right, the trick works ...
The Lawrence school board on Monday will consider changing the district's high school graduation requirements to meet new statewide standards, which, among other things, emphasize career and college preparation and change how math and science credits are handled. According to the agenda ...