Douglas County commissioners deferred voting to make it easier to remove a road’s minimum maintenance designation on Wednesday. The proposed changes would allow county commissioners to remove a minimum maintenance designation – which is given to a public road that may only occasionally be ...

As soon as there's a hint of autumn in the air — and sometimes even before that — the Wades' phone starts ringing. Callers want to know when the nuts and fruits are coming. “And then, like if we have more than two or three cars in the driveway, some of the neighbors will start pulling ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters took a wrecking ball to the traditional map of political battlegrounds, electing Democrats in states that were long considered reliably Republican. Kansas, South Carolina, Texas, Ohio and Iowa, all states Republican Donald Trump easily won two years ago in the ...

Voters were split exactly 50-50 in unofficial election results Tuesday night on a half-cent sales tax in Eudora that would support three full-time firefighters and give the city around-the-clock-fire protection for the first time in its history. The 0.5% sales tax had 1,150 votes for it and ...

Democrat Ethan Spurling has won the District 4 seat on the Douglas County Commission, defeating a seated commissioner in both the primary and general elections, where the commissioner ran as a write-in candidate. Spurling secured the general election win against Gene Dorsey, a Democrat, who is ...

Incumbent Patrick Kelly, a Democrat, will keep his seat on the Douglas County Commission after running unopposed in Tuesday’s election. This will be Kelly’s third term on the County Commission's District 1. The district includes parts of northern, northwestern and central Lawrence. Kelly ...