After seven months of construction and $3.31 million in repairs targeting road safety conditions, a stretch of road in rural Douglas County has reopened to traffic a month ahead of schedule. Douglas County Route 458 at North 1000 Road, east of U.S. Highway 59 in the southern portion of the ...
Updated at 1:45 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19 Douglas County leaders on Wednesday unanimously approved a process for making their own appointments to the Lawrence Community Shelter Board of Directors, and they also appointed two new members with experience in nonprofits and volunteer work. As the ...
Douglas County commissioners at their meeting on Wednesday will consider approving a process for appointing members to the Lawrence Community Shelter Board of Directors under a new shared governance model. As the Journal-World reported in September, the City of Lawrence, Douglas County and ...
Community members can learn about Douglas County's Open Space Plan and provide feedback during an open house next week. The county will host the open house from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, at the Lawrence Union Pacific Depot, 402 N. Second St. The need for an Open Space Plan was ...
Kansas' electronic court filing and records systems will be unavailable for the next two weeks because of a "security incident," and all filings will have to be done on paper during that time, according to a news release from state judicial officials. While district courts will remain open, ...
County commissioners selected a construction company on Wednesday for a more than $1 million project that will build a new maintenance facility at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. At their meeting Wednesday, commissioners unanimously chose to use B.A. Green Construction for the project, which ...