City leaders will vote this week on a $26 million bond issuance to fund water and sewer projects in Lawrence's Capital Improvement Plan. The City Commission is scheduled to consider issuing the bonds at its meeting on Tuesday. A memo from finance staff to the commission said the projects the ...
An attorney from Douglas County's Public Defender Office was sworn in as a pro tem judge on Monday in Douglas County District Court. Gary West will fill the pro tem vacancy that was created when Blake Glover was appointed by Gov. Laura Kelly to be a district judge. Glover was elevated to that ...
Story updated at 5:15 p.m. Monday, Sept. 5 University of Kansas Chancellor Doug Girod on Friday confirmed that Hilltop Child Development Center will close at the end of the month. But he also indicated that plans to tear down the center’s main building appear unlikely — news that was a ...
Holly Dawson expected her first mammogram to be uneventful. At 40, she had no symptoms, no known family history of breast cancer and no reason to expect the screening would find anything concerning. She might even have put it off a year or two if her LMH Health primary care physician, Dr. ...
The University of Kansas will lead a new national program that aims to provide leadership to the special education field, which is seeing far more teachers leaving it than entering it. But the new project — which recently received a $3.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education ...
TOPEKA — Fort Hays State University president Tisa Mason says the Sternberg Museum of Natural History will close to the public in mid-December because of budget problems. She said museum faculty and staff would remain this academic year to review collections, determine what must be retained ...
