Canvassing of the Aug. 2 primary election results in Douglas County confirmed on Monday a record-breaking voter turnout. In total, canvassers counted 47,657 ballots. That’s 58.5% of the county’s 81,418 registered voters — and significantly more than the 29,028 ballots cast in the last ...
The 2nd annual Kaw River Roots Festival is set for next week in Lawrence. The festival is a two-day celebration, Aug. 26-27, of roots, bluegrass and Americana music along the bank of the Kansas River at Abe & Jake’s Landing in downtown Lawrence. The festival will feature multiple outdoor ...
The Bureau of Land Management will offer 120 wild horses and burros for adoption this weekend in Lawrence, according to a news release from the federal agency. The animals offered at the event are adult and yearling horses and burros that once roamed free on public lands in the West. The BLM ...
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. It’s unlikely that Isaac Newton ever imagined how his third law of motion would be applied in modern-day athletic training. It’s now integral in force plate technology from VALD Performance, which is used at OrthoKansas and LMH Health ...
A lot of anti-immigrant policies came out of the last presidential administration, but in Lawrence what those years spurred was a program that has now helped 30 undocumented students in the area attend college. The Lawrence DACA Scholars program began making and selling tamales in 2017 to ...
Tenants to Homeowners received one of the largest slices of the latest round of federal pandemic relief in Douglas County, and that money will eventually help create nearly 70 units of affordable rental housing. During their American Rescue Plan Act allocation process last month, county ...