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 ...

Miller Mart owner Sang Lee knows his regulars by name. He grabs what they want, like a specific brand of cigarettes, without them needing to ask for it. “I’m at the point where I can count individual transactions on the computer and know which customer it was that made this one transaction ...

The push is officially on for the local business community to raise $2.5 million in funding to support economic development programs that leaders hope will bring more than 1,000 new jobs to the Lawrence area. The Lawrence chamber of commerce and the Economic Development Corporation of Lawrence ...