Candidates for Douglas County district attorney participated in an online forum Thursday evening that specifically focused on issues of concern to Black people, Indigenous people and people of color as well as the LGBTQIA community. During the 90-minute forum, the three Democratic candidates ...
Downtown Lawrence now has new guides to assist visitors and help keep the downtown clean and sanitized. The City of Lawrence recently created the Downtown Ambassadors pilot program in partnership with Downtown Lawrence Inc. and the local visitors bureau, Explore Lawrence. The guides wear ...
HUTCHINSON — The chances of the Kansas State Fair being held this year are looking less likely after a large number of vendors backed out or expressed trepidation. The Hutchinson News reports that the fair's board will meet Monday to reconsider its decision to hold the event in ...
TOPEKA — Four in 10 Kansans live in counties that have overruled Gov. Laura Kelly’s statewide mask order even as coronavirus cases in the state soar. More than 90 of the state’s 105 counties have opted out of the mandate issued last week under a new state law that allows local leaders to ...
The state of Kansas settled a class-action lawsuit filed by child care advocates who accused the state of not providing foster children with adequate mental health care and moving them too frequently between homes. The settlement, filed Wednesday, mandates the state stop moving foster children ...
Haskell Indian Nations University students were upset to see that their semester fees, which typically include housing, food and activity costs, will remain the same price for the upcoming online semester — and that the announcement came from the student newspaper instead of from the ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
Story updated at 1:19 p.m. Thursday: Police arrested a 35-year-old Lawrence man late Wednesday on suspicion of five counts of attempted first-degree murder, according to the Douglas County Jail booking log. Lawrence police were dispatched to a reported shooting around 11 p.m. Wednesday in ...
A plan to add sidewalks, curbs and guttering to assist a redevelopment project in Eudora was officially granted funding from the Kansas Department of Transportation on Thursday, with construction now set to begin in August. KDOT Secretary Julie Lorenz and Eudora Mayor Tim Reazin announced the ...
Douglas County Republican leaders will soon select a new sheriff to finish out the term of recently retired Sheriff Ken McGovern. Republican precinct committee members of Douglas County will hold a convention on Friday to nominate and vote to appoint a sheriff. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew ...
Story updated at 2:58 p.m. Thursday WASHINGTON — Rejecting President Donald Trump’s complaints that he's being harassed, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a New York prosecutor’s demands for the billionaire president’s tax records. But in good political news for Trump, his ...
The Douglas County Commission has again deferred taking action on a company’s request to expand a rock mining operation near Eudora. This time, the commission scheduled about a month before it will reconsider the issue, providing time for the Hamm Quarry representatives to meet with the ...
Douglas County has reported 377 cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday, an increase of 23 cases since Monday. In Douglas County, 194 out of the 377 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 have recovered. The age range with the highest number of cases is 20 to 29. Out of the 377 cases of COVID-19 in ...
Kansas’ top health official said Wednesday that the state continues to see a significant increase in COVID-19 cases — mostly due to an effort to “return to normal” that has seen folks across the state gather in larger numbers without proper precautions. Now more than ever, it is ...
Douglas County voters who want to cast their ballot before Election Day will have the option of using a new location for the purpose of socially distancing. The Douglas County Clerk’s Office announced Wednesday that it has added a location for in-person advance voting at 2329 Iowa St., Suite ...
Updated at 4:28 p.m. Wednesday The City of Lawrence has agreed to purchase the house of a couple who sued the city after discovering a century-old tunnel directly under their home. Sarah Merriman and Donna Geisler bought their house at 812 Ohio St. in 2017 with plans to demolish the ranch ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
A line of vehicles stretched several blocks into the North Lawrence neighborhood as motorists awaited testing for COVID-19 on Wednesday. The Lenexa-based nonprofit Heart to Heart International, along with researchers from the University of Kansas Medical Center, held an open, drive-thru ...
Erin Socha and Maggie Wagner have lived in Lawrence for over a year, but it wasn't until the Black Lives Matter protests began in late May that they realized their back fence could become a platform for social change. The fence, between Massachusetts Street and Vermont Street and visible from ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod on Wednesday issued a strong condemnation of new federal regulations on international student visas that bar those students from staying in the United States if their educational institution doesn't hold in-person classes in the fall semester ...
