After years of planning and waiting patiently to be on the world’s stage, the 2026 FIFA World Cup is now less than two weeks away. With six matches in Kansas City, four teams staying in the area — including the Algerian national team using Lawrence as its base camp — and the expectation ...
Lawrence Transit, in partnership with Explore Lawrence, will offer extended transit service on days when there are 2026 FIFA World Cup matches in Kansas City. The service will run a “Score Lawrence route” between the downtown transit hub at Vermont and Seventh Streets to the Central ...
Lawrence's LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations will kick off next week with a downtown parade and a block party in South Park. The Lawrence PRIDE parade will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 6, in downtown Lawrence. It will start near Seventh and Massachusetts streets and travel south through downtown to ...
Updated at 4:33 p.m. on Friday, May 29, 2026. Monday is the deadline to file for 2026's County Commission and Kansas House elections, and a handful of candidates in Douglas County either have no opponent yet or will only be opposed in the primary elections. Every seat in the Kansas House is ...
If you were in North Lawrence on Friday morning, you might have seen a military tank sitting on a trailer in the middle of North Third Street, just off the Kansas Turnpike. The driver in one of the cars escorting the tank didn't know where it had originally come from, but told the ...
Douglas County Master Gardeners will be hosting its annual native plant sale this weekend. The sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, at the Open Pavilion at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper St. There will be 100 varieties of plants that are locally grown. ...