The attorney for Douglas County District Attorney Suzanne Valdez has requested a continuance for her disciplinary hearing scheduled for next week, citing a "personal tragedy." The hearing is scheduled for Oct. 12 and 13, when a panel of three attorneys with the Kansas Board for Discipline of ...
The Douglas County Commission will not hold its regular Wednesday meeting this week, but is slated to convene on Oct. 11. County Administrator Sarah Plinsky informed commissioners at the Sept. 27 meeting that she planned to attend the International City/County Management Association's annual ...
Updated at 4:03 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28 The Kansas Supreme Court has renewed Douglas County Chief Judge James R. McCabria's appointment as chief judge of Kansas’ Seventh Judicial District, according to a post from the county on social media. McCabria was first appointed chief judge in ...
Douglas County leaders have now significantly narrowed down their options for renovating the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, focusing on a set of plans that would cost between $105 million and about $120 million, would add an extra wing to the building and wouldn't require a tax ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will hear a follow-up presentation on a remodel of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center that could cost more than $125 million. The architecture firm overseeing the remodel, TreanorHL, has spent 10 months in the planning phase of a project aimed at ...
Over the 2022 fiscal year, Douglas County's cash reserves got a boost because the county took in nearly $12 million more than it spent, according to a financial statement that auditors presented at the County Commission's meeting on Wednesday. Douglas County's audit report from Allen, Gibbs ...