The Lawrence school district has responded to an amended complaint in a lawsuit regarding its former use of Gaggle, acknowledging a quiet switch to a similar software but denying any legal wrongdoing in making the switch. In November, the current and former students who filed a lawsuit ...
Douglas County has begun accepting applications for a competition where area students pitch their business ideas. The Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge is open to Douglas County students in grades 6-12, and participants will present a written summary, deliver a business pitch and create a trade ...
Attorneys for the State of Kansas who are defending a state law banning gender-affirming care for minors have notified a Douglas County judge that a recent national development affects their case — namely, the Trump administration's proposed rule that would prohibit hospitals that participate ...
The Kansas Department of Transportation has scheduled temporary closures on Kansas Highway 10 near the Yankee Tank Creek bridge in Lawrence for maintenance work. Conditions permitting, the following will occur on Tuesday: • From 9 to 11 a.m., eastbound K-10 will be closed at Clinton ...
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 ...