Four transgender men and one intersex woman on Tuesday told a Douglas County judge how Kansas’ anti-trans law known as SB 244 has negatively impacted their lives - forcing them to surrender their driver’s licenses, to problematically use certain bathrooms, to live in fear of being outed and ...

The University of Kansas Health System will be acquiring full ownership of the St. Francis Campus in Topeka, with the transition expected to be completed by January 2027. The St. Francis Campus has been under joint ownership between the KU Health System and Ardent Health since 2017. At the ...

Douglas County is planning a pilot program to repurpose some "tiny homes" near the city's homeless shelter as temporary housing for people with complex behavioral and medical needs following a health crisis. The Monarch Village was previously designed during the COVID-19 pandemic to offer ...

Lawrence school district officials told the school board Monday that the district has identified $73.9 million in deferred maintenance and facilities needs but lacks enough current funding to address them all. “The issue is really the longer you delay repairing, the more costly it will be ...

Alex Red Corn, the temporary president of Haskell Indian Nations University, has been appointed as the university's permanent president, the Bureau of Indian Education announced Monday. Red Corn, a citizen of the Osage Nation, has served as interim president since January. In a news release, ...

After nine months without a public comment period, the Lawrence school board will again allow community members to address board members at the end of their regular meetings. After Bob Byers was appointed board president in July, he expressed an interest in bringing a public comment period ...