Local students — ranging from law school students to elementary students — will get a chance to visit in person with a sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice next month. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be visiting the University of Kansas campus on April 6 and April 7, KU’s ...
Douglas County officially was on the decline last year. The county posted a small, but rare, drop in population in 2025, according to new estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday. Douglas County also was unique in one regard: It was the only urban county in the state that ...
A car went into the Kansas River just off the Eighth Street boat ramp on Wednesday after the driver took a wrong turn, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, and it's now been removed from the water. According to a social media post from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, the ...
The Watkins Museum of History announced it will be hosting a traveling exhibition later this spring that features photography documenting sites along the Underground Railroad, with a supplemental exhibit detailing Kansas’s history with the network. The museum announced in a press release ...
Four organizations will be co-hosting a free community event centered on birth outcomes in Douglas County. The "Public Health After Dark" event will be hosted by Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, LMH Health, LiveWell Douglas County and the Early Childhood Collective. It will take place ...
The Douglas County Commission meeting room erupted in cheers on Wednesday night after commissioners approved a tenant eviction defense pilot program. A majority of those cheers came from local advocacy group Lawrence Tenants – which has been urging county commissioners to develop a tenants ...
