The Douglas County Food Policy Council is hosting a free panel discussion and resource fair Tuesday for business people who handle food and who would like to learn more about local regulations.
The event — for food entrepreneurs, including farmers, mobile food vendors and others — will ...
Updated at 11:23 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 8
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday rejected an amendment to the joint city-county comprehensive plan that now will complicate how a major development project along the South Lawrence Trafficway can move forward.
On Wednesday, the County Commission ...
A bill that would prohibit local governments from restricting or taxing an array of plastic items, including shopping bags, cleared a hurdle this week and now awaits a Senate vote.
The bill would target ordinances such as the one passed by Lawrence city leaders that bans single-use plastic ...
Douglas County leaders will soon consider a new process for enforcing the county's animal code — specifically, for handling cases where people with animals that are dangerous or a nuisance have repeatedly failed to comply with the rules.
At their meeting on Wednesday, county commissioners ...
Two people have filed as Democrats to run for Douglas County district attorney, including current DA Suzanne Valdez, while one of her senior prosecutors has filed to run for office in Johnson County.
Valdez filed to run for reelection on Jan. 12, according to the Kansas secretary of state's ...
Starting later this week, the Douglas County District Court Clerk’s Office will be closing early to process the thousands of documents that have been filed since an October cyberattack compromised the statewide digital filing and records systems.
Douglas County announced the change to the ...