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 a decade 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 ...
In anticipation of city-imposed cuts to Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical, county commissioners are expressing interest in not just spending extra to maintain some emergency service levels, but to staff a new ambulance, as well. One of the topics discussed at the Douglas County Commission's ...
The Lawrence Police Department urged residents to avoid the area of 23rd Street between Louisiana and Alabama streets Tuesday evening after a crash took down a power line. According to a post on the police department’s Facebook page, the crash happened Tuesday afternoon with no injuries ...
The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office wants the county to allocate more than $215,000 in its 2026 budget for two positions — positions it says are necessary to lighten the heavy caseload on its attorneys. On Tuesday, during the Douglas County Commission’s second day of budget ...