From a horse-drawn parade to holiday markets to lots and lots of unique Christmas trees, the Journal-World's 2022 Holiday Happenings special section has a long list of events and activities to fill your holiday season. Click here to see the entire section. LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD HOLIDAY ...
Although rent and utility assistance funding has flowed freely into Douglas County in the past year, the well of federal relief programs is drying up. From March of 2021 to this month, the Kansas Emergency Rental Assistance program distributed just over $19 million in rent and utility ...
Story updated at 8:19 p.m. Tuesday Kansas football coach Lance Leipold has agreed to a contract extension that is expected to keep him in Lawrence for the long haul, a source with knowledge of the conversations between KU and Leipold told the Journal-World on Tuesday night. ESPN’s Pete ...
Amanda Sellet evidently had way more fun writing 2022's “Belittled Women” than Louisa May Alcott did writing 1868's “Little Women.” But perhaps that's not surprising. Alcott wrote her novel a bit begrudgingly — at the behest of a male publisher who wanted a book about girls. Judging ...
Lawrence is one of eight communities across the state to receive a grant to preserve community history from the 1970s, a decade that local historians say represented a transformative time in the city’s history. Humanities Kansas announced this week that eight nonprofit cultural ...
Dan Partridge, who has served as the director of Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health for more than 15 years, is set to retire. The Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health Board discussed Partridge’s retirement during its Monday meeting. Partridge submitted his resignation letter to the ...