Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will review recommendations for modernizing the county's zoning and subdivision regulations, including stronger land-use policies, infrastructure requirements and environmental protections. As the Journal-World reported, Douglas County partners with ...
Updated at 4:13 p.m., Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Douglas County commissioners are finalizing their budget decisions for 2027, and following deliberations on Tuesday, are looking at a reduction to the property tax rate. Following budget deliberations, county staff have calculated a $199.6 million ...
Updated at 6:46 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. Two 15-year-old girls on Tuesday testified that a Lawrence man sexually abused them several years ago during sleepovers at his home, and one of them told the jury that she didn't report the abuse until last year because she was afraid she ...
Lawrence school board members on Monday chose Bob Byers as their new board president and Yolanda Franklin as their vice president for the upcoming 2026-2027 school year. The board held its annual organizational meeting on Monday to elect its officers. Byers was the only board member nominated ...
A Douglas County jury has been selected to hear the case of a Lawrence man accused of sexually abusing two young girls during sleepovers at his home several years ago. On Monday, a jury of seven men and seven women, including two alternates, heard an opening argument from prosecutor David ...
A new healthcare facility on Haskell Indian Nations University’s campus is expected to be built in the next “three to five years,” the CEO of the Haskell Indian Health Center told the Journal-World. The university and the Indian Health Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health ...
