Douglas County commissioners at this week's meeting will hear an update from the county’s Heritage Conservation Council about its plans for the coming year. During a work session Wednesday afternoon, the commission will hear from HCC chair Jenny Trucano Muller and vice chair Nick Pumphrey. ...
The Douglas County Commission continues to get pushback from rural residents who say they’re concerned about the possibility of any large-scale renewable energy projects in southern Douglas County. The commission’s work session on Wednesday afternoon, a discussion about the future of ...
High demand for rent and utility assistance isn’t going anywhere, but community housing agencies are doing what they can to offer other forms of help, Douglas County leaders heard this week. At the Douglas County Commission's meeting on Wednesday, housing and human services manager Gabi ...
There's enough of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone to go around in Douglas County for now, a local social safety net nonprofit says, but the real challenge will be giving the community easy ways to access it and training more emergency responders on how to use it. At Wednesday’s Douglas ...
A Douglas County nonprofit that distributes the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone, or Narcan, recently had a waiting list of more than 1,700 requests, and it says supply issues and other challenges are preventing it from fulfilling much of that demand. That's according to a letter that ...
Douglas County has a lot of ground to make up as it works on a blueprint for what will happen to its natural, undeveloped land in the future. That was the message last week from the team that's working on the county's open space plan — six county staff members and some consultants from ...