Lawrence's LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations will kick off next week with a downtown parade and a block party in South Park. The Lawrence PRIDE parade will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 6, in downtown Lawrence. It will start near Seventh and Massachusetts streets and travel south through downtown to ...
Updated at 4:33 p.m. on Friday, May 29, 2026. Monday is the deadline to file for 2026's County Commission and Kansas House elections, and a handful of candidates in Douglas County either have no opponent yet or will only be opposed in the primary elections. Every seat in the Kansas House is ...
A Douglas County inmate who was seeking to visit his infant daughter at a Kansas City, Missouri, hospital, was given court permission to do so on Friday, but by then the child had died. The inmate, Jaystyn Curtiss, 20, of Lawrence, was still going to be allowed to see his child on Friday ...
If you were in North Lawrence on Friday morning, you might have seen a military tank sitting on a trailer in the middle of North Third Street, just off the Kansas Turnpike. The driver in one of the cars escorting the tank didn't know where it had originally come from, but told the ...
Sustainability advocate Michael Almon says that “when all you have is a mower, every problem looks like a weed.” But that includes many native plants that grow above the height currently permitted in landscaping by Lawrence's city code. That's why Almon and Lawrence's Sustainability ...
Douglas County Master Gardeners will be hosting its annual native plant sale this weekend. The sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, at the Open Pavilion at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2120 Harper St. There will be 100 varieties of plants that are locally grown. ...
