Douglas County staff wants to get the Sheriff's Office's operations into the new Public Safety Building on a faster timeline, and county commissioners will consider accelerating the planning process for that at their meeting this week. On Wednesday, the commissioners will consider amending the ...

Barring a surprise at the wire, professional horse racing is set to return to Kansas. State lawmakers have given final approval to a bill that creates potentially millions of dollars per year in funding to help restart horse racing and the horse breeding and stabling programs that come with ...

Suzanne Valdez's tumultuous, singular term as Douglas County's district attorney ended three months ago, but on Tuesday she found herself facing the Kansas Supreme Court for a disciplinary matter that arose during her very first months in office, back in 2021. It's a position, she told the ...

Citing expected government cuts, the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence has announced a "reduction in force" that will affect dozens of employees. The Boys and Girls Club, in a Monday news release, said that on Friday it announced “a necessary reduction in force,” resulting in “the ...

A new exhibit highlighting the domestic religious practices of Jewish settlers in Kansas will be on display at the Watkins Museum of History. The exhibit, "Transplanting Heritage: Judaica from The Klein Collection," will feature numerous items, including Kiddush cups and menorahs from the ...

When Robin Gingerich and her husband, Tom Mersmann, decided to protest the Trump administration one Sunday on the corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets in late February, they had no idea how large it would become. Now, every Sunday at noon, hundreds of people gather with their friends and ...