Each year in Lawrence, alongside the long-running “Santa Rescue” event on the day after Thanksgiving, the city marks the official start to the holidays as the mayor flips a switch to turn on holiday lights winding around the trees of downtown Massachusetts Street. Mark Hecker, an assistant ...

Balancing budgets, careers and curveballs, SparkWheel’s student finance program lets kids step into the future and discover how quickly paychecks can disappear. The FutureNow: Finance program is an interactive workshop that SparkWheel hosts in collaboration with partner schools to help ...

Nicole Parker didn't win Season 4 of "The Floor," but she made it to the finale, got to spend a week in Ireland, made a slew of new friends and drank some Guinness in Dublin. "Oh my goodness, it's way better in Ireland," she said of the iconic brown brew. She liked the food too. "There was ...

Douglas County and Baldwin City have partnered to preserve and manage Black Jack Battlefield, a 38-acre historic site central to the Bleeding Kansas era. The property is at 163 East 2000th Road near Baldwin City, and it is the site of the June 2, 1856, Battle of Black Jack, which was the ...

When National Guard Soldier Sarah Beckstrom died on Thanksgiving, the day after being shot in Washington, D.C., KU graduate Baset Azizi spent a sleepless night wondering what he could do to ease the pain "even just a little" — of Beckstrom's grieving family, of her military brethren and of ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The Kansas City Chiefs appear to be mere days away from taking a big step toward a move across the state line, and eventually leaving their longtime home at Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri for a new and likely covered stadium in Kansas. With a year-end deadline approaching, ...