WASHINGTON — The national taxpayer advocate is cautioning that the 2026 tax filing season is likely to present challenges for taxpayers who encounter problems with filing their taxes given the exodus of IRS workers since the start of the Trump administration. National Taxpayer Advocate Erin ...
WASHINGTON — A groundswell of voices have come to the same conclusion: Kristi Noem must go. From Democratic Party leaders to the nation's leading advocacy organizations to even the most centrist lawmakers in Congress, the calls are mounting for the Homeland Security secretary to step aside ...
WASHINGTON — As a partial government shutdown looms at week's end, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has laid out a list of demands for the Department of Homeland Security, including an enforceable code of conduct for federal agents conducting immigration arrests and a requirement that ...
While electric vehicles, or EVs, have been steadily rising in popularity in Douglas County, the area's charging infrastructure has some growing to do, a new report from local planning officials suggests. The report is called the Douglas County EV Readiness Report. It was produced by the ...
Some changes on the federal level could bring more funding to LMH Health, and others could bring frustration, but the hospital's leaders struck an optimistic note on Wednesday in their first board meeting of 2026. The LMH Health Board of Trustees met only briefly on Wednesday morning and ...
Updated at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28 A Douglas County judge on Wednesday sentenced a Lawrence man to more than 12 years in prison for rape and aggravated criminal sodomy. The sentence came after a jury in November convicted Miquel Brown, 33, of the two sex crimes and after his attorneys ...
