The Douglas County Democratic Party will host a program focused on LGBTQ+ issues Saturday in Lawrence. The program, titled "Existence and Resistance," will feature a panel of activists who will discuss issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community and ways that allies can help defend human rights. The ...

It’s been about a month and a half since Lawrence Parks and Recreation staff erroneously sprayed herbicide across the five-acre native prairie remnant behind Prairie Park Nature Center. Now, the department’s working with ecological experts to properly assess the damage. As the ...

A crowd slowed traffic one recent morning on a road north of Lawrence, but it dispersed in a cloud of fluttering wings, as thousands of hackberry emperor butterflies took to the sky. Asterocampa celtis, also known as the hackberry emperor, is common during summer months in the eastern third of ...

One of the great joys for Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame member Danney Williams is playing the guitar. He was set to play in the band last fall at a local church dance when disaster struck. He was doing some work at the church, going up and down a ladder, but before he knew it, it had gone ...

Near the site of where a 14-year-old Black girl was falsely convicted of crimes against her rapist, a marker now stands. What it stands for is many-fold: the sexual violence that Black women and girls suffered at the hands of white men, the further victimization from an unjust justice system, ...

There’s been a subtle change at the BP gas station at 3020 Iowa St., but it’s one that could ultimately have a much more noticeable impact for the Lawrence Humane Society. Since June 1, pumps 11 and 12 at the gas station have been converted into “Puppy Pumps” in partnership with the ...