County commissioners convened for a final meeting on Friday ahead of next week’s budget deliberations. The discussions began with budget lines included in the 2026 proposed budget for market adjustments to align salaries more closely with competing agencies and pay increases for the ...

Youth job training, a child care assistance fund and money that would keep a housing project for chronically homeless residents afloat: These were among the poverty-related initiatives that Douglas County commissioners reviewed funding requests for at their 2026 budget hearings on ...

Friday, July 11 Trinity Vintage & Garage Sale, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St. Continues Saturday morning. Summer Book Sale, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Each book $2 or less. Enter on Kentucky Street side. Continues Saturday and ...

Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday approved a site plan for improvements to a golf complex, which will include a new and bigger clubhouse with indoor tee boxes and a restaurant. The site plan is for Twin Oaks Golf Complex, 1326 East 1900 Road, and the plans involve building a nearly ...

Over years of reporting on LGBTQ+ issues, Nico Lang has noticed something missing in discussions about transgender kids in state legislatures and in the media — namely, just how ordinary these kids are. Lang, whose work has been featured in publications like Rolling Stone, the New York ...

The Higher Learning Commission has changed Haskell Indian Nations University's accreditation status from “accredited” to “accredited on notice," and it says the school is “at risk of being out of compliance” with its standards, according to a notice posted on the HLC's website ...