Douglas County Sheriff Jay Armbrister, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary and has no Republican challenger, is set to serve another four years. Armbrister had secured 8,299 votes with 96% of the votes tallied Tuesday night, while write-in candidates received 205 votes, according to ...
Incumbent Douglas County Commissioner Shannon Reid on Tuesday defeated Lawrence City Commissioner Lisa Larsen in the Democratic primary for the county's District 2 seat. Reid will now face Brad Chun, an independent candidate, in the November general election. Reid, the only incumbent county ...
Dakota Loomis, a defense attorney and Baldwin City Municipal Court prosecutor, unseated Douglas County's incumbent DA with a landslide Democratic primary victory on Tuesday night. As of 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, with 97 of 101 precincts reporting, Loomis had 6,313 votes, or 63.5% of the total, in the ...
Douglas County leaders this week will get their first look at a budget proposal for the county's rural Consolidated Fire District No. 1 and a five-year capital improvement plan that would replace 10 bridges in the county and extend Wakarusa Drive across the Wakarusa River. At a work session ...
After receiving enough signatures from members of the community to get on the November ballot, Brad Chun will be running for the Douglas County Commission as an independent candidate in the general election. Chun will be running for the seat in District 2, which includes North Lawrence, the ...
After several requests from energy storage companies curious about expanding to Douglas County, the county's Zoning and Codes division will start the process of drawing up specific rules for those kinds of uses — as well as high-tech operations that store data and mine cryptocurrencies. At ...