The county has awarded thousands in grants each year to support historic preservation, cultural programs and natural resource conservation, but growing demand is putting increasing pressure on the program’s available funding. The Natural and Cultural Heritage Grant Program — which is ...
Friday, November 6 Holiday Open Barn, noon-5 p.m., Historic Taylor Barn, 1827 E 1150 Road. 30+ local artists, holiday music and more. Continues through the weekend. AUMI Jam, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Sound+Vision Studio, lower level, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. KU Inter-Arts ...
Story updated at 5:33 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5: After winning a nationwide performing arts award, the Lawrence Opera Theatre is feeling a bit like Cinderella – or, should we say, “La Cenerentola”? “La Cenerentola” is the operatic retelling of the classic fairy tale that won the local ...
Story updated at 2:41 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. The Lawrence school district briefly placed all of its school buildings on a lockout Thursday afternoon on the advice of the Lawrence Police Department after a "credible threat involving a mental health concern with an individual in the ...
Bishop Seabury Academy won an annual state-wide high school competition designed to promote civic engagement and test students’ knowledge of state, local and national government. The 2026 Kansas Civics Games recognized three winning teams on Thursday, Oct. 29 ,for developing solutions to a ...
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 ...