Douglas County is planning a pilot program to repurpose some "tiny homes" near the city's homeless shelter as temporary housing for people with complex behavioral and medical needs following a health crisis. The Monarch Village was previously designed during the COVID-19 pandemic to offer ...
The University of Kansas’ Osher Lifelong Learning Institute will host its annual Indigenous Peoples Day celebration next month, featuring six new presenters and a lunch with traditional Indigenous ingredients. The daylong program will include presenters from six tribal nations and will ...
TOPEKA — Attorney General Kris Kobach sent a cease-and-desist letter Friday to the League of Women Voters to stop violations of state and federal law by offering financial incentives to high school students who registered to vote. The issue surfaced after state Rep. Pat Proctor, a ...
Plans for a new Kansas Bureau of Investigation headquarters in downtown Topeka are moving forward, but a new question is emerging over who should help pay for the project. That has left at least one lawmaker suggesting they should consider other communities if the state’s capital city ...
Lawrence school district officials told the school board Monday that the district has identified $73.9 million in deferred maintenance and facilities needs but lacks enough current funding to address them all. “The issue is really the longer you delay repairing, the more costly it will be ...
The state says the defendant was masturbating at a pool in front of a minor, but his attorneys claim he was innocently "adjusting himself." If a Douglas County jury believes prosecutor Adam Carey and the four witnesses he put on the stand Monday, defendant Jay Janicke will be convicted of a ...
