Jake Potter, the Lawrence school district's executive director of communications, is leaving the district after less than a year, and another communications staff member will assume his responsibilities, the Journal-World has independently learned. On May 25, at a Lawrence school board ...
A new mural visible from the Burroughs Creek Trail is coming to East Lawrence after a local trails nonprofit secured two grants to support the project. The mural project is being led by Friends of Lawrence Area Trails, or FLAT, a nonprofit dedicated to maintaining an accessible trail system in ...
A Democratic challenger, Milton Scott has filed to take on the incumbent for the Douglas County Commission's 1st District seat. Scott, who previously ran for Lawrence City Commission in 2021, will be facing incumbent Patrick Kelly in the Democratic primary election. Scott said he was running ...
Four candidates filed for Kansas House races in the Douglas County area close to the June 1 deadline, and two of them have turned uncontested general election races into contested ones. Every seat in the Kansas House is up for election this year, and some of the districts in Douglas County ...
Monday was the deadline to file for the 2026 elections in Kansas, which will include contests for governor, a U.S. Senate seat, all four U.S. House seats and every single seat in the Kansas House of Representatives. Three of the five seats on the Douglas County Commission are up for election as ...
The Lawrence branch of the NAACP will have a dedication ceremony for 30 newly installed granite grave markers for local African Americans buried in potter's field. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. on June 10 at the potter's field section of Oak Hill Cemetery, 1605 Oak Hill ...