A new housing development will help transition families into long-term housing, and it will be welcoming its first families in mid-September. Dozens of people attended Tuesday afternoon’s ribbon cutting ceremony for the new transitional housing development known as Promise Heights. The ...
Friday, August 28 Happy Birthday Senator Elizabeth Dole Community Blood Drive, noon-4 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive. See doleinstitute.org for details and donation sign-up. Clear the Shelter Event, noon-6 p.m., Lawrence Humane Society, 1805 E. 19th St. Adoption fees ...
Everywhere his journey as an artist has led, Reece Henderson has had to grapple with anxiety – and that includes his latest stint at the Lawrence Arts Center. “I struggle with anxiety, personally,” says Henderson, the Arts Center’s new ceramics artist in residence. “Like, social ...
A small parking lot south of Douglas County's historic courthouse will close for construction next week, and meanwhile, additional parking spots will open at the nearby parking lot behind the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. The lot for the historic courthouse will be closed for ...
Douglas County commissioners unanimously voted to approve the 2027 budget on Wednesday, and a couple commissioners think it would have been possible to achieve a revenue-neutral rate. The 2027 budget includes approximately $199.6 million with a mill levy – or property tax rate – of 40.286 ...
Douglas County’s 2026 point-in-time count showed a 65-person increase in sheltered homelessness, but a city official cautions that the increase doesn't reflect growth in the county’s homeless population. The “point-in-time count” is an annual, one-night census that is required by the ...