TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly took an extraordinary step Friday by filing a lawsuit directly with the Kansas Supreme Court alleging that Attorney General Kris Kobach was undermining constitutional powers assigned to the state’s governor. Kelly, a two-term Democrat, said the lawsuit was ...
On the cement floor of a workshop in East Lawrence, Tonatiuh Hernández Pacheco is binding reed shoots together to form a capsule-shaped object several feet tall. Behind him, a few people dip their hands into a pot of wheat paste, wetting strips of newspaper to cover inflated balloons, while ...
As part of a budget-balancing measure, the University of Kansas has launched a program to encourage certain, longtime, tenured faculty members to retire early. University employees on Friday received a notice announcing a “voluntary separation incentive program,” that is targeted toward ...
Panelists shared during a town hall how many pieces of House Bill HR1, otherwise known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” will have negative consequences across Douglas County, especially in the health care space and at Haskell Indian Nations University. The panel was hosted Thursday night ...
Renter protections, affordability and the city's $130 million public works campus were among the big topics that Lawrence City Commission candidates discussed at a forum on Thursday evening, just days before the election. The forum at the Douglas County Fairgrounds was less than a week out ...
Kaylen Ortiz believes that her baby boy was murdered nine years ago and that a day care employee was the killer. An expert witness' report that says Ortiz's 9-month-old died by natural causes has not changed Ortiz's mind. And she told a judge Thursday that it didn't change the mind of the ...
