Before European settlement, Kansas was dominated by vast prairies of tall grasses and wildflowers. However, farming and development have since altered the landscape, prompting researchers at the University of Kansas to help uncover how much of it remains intact in Douglas County. Prairie ...
On Saturday, a few days after eight Buddhist monks began crafting a 5-foot-wide mandala out sand in the Lawrence Arts Center's lobby, the work was completed and swept away in a closing ceremony before the sand was dispersed over the Kansas River.
Horses and decorated carriages and wagons took center stage Saturday for the 31st annual Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade in downtown Lawrence.
Lawrence school board members will consider approving a new cellphone policy that would make high school classrooms phone-free during instructional time. On Monday, school board members will be reviewing a new draft of the high schools cellphone policy – aiming to keep cellphone use out of ...
The Watkins Museum of History is hosting an exhibit featuring the efforts of a longtime Lawrence hemp activist and the fight to legalize marijuana locally. The exhibit, "Honk for Change," created by several University of Kansas museum studies students, examines how national hemp and marijuana ...
A Lawrence church has been collecting Christmas Nativities from around the globe for over 30 years and is inviting the public, as it does every year, to view its latest depictions of the night of Jesus' birth in the Bethlehem manger. Centenary United Methodist Church in North Lawrence has now ...