As a part of its annual fundraiser, Lawrence Habitat for Humanity is offering tours of six homes that are decorated for the holidays. The Holiday Homes Tour will be from noon to 5 p.m. on Dec. 7. Participants will meet at the organization’s ReStore, 2108 W. 27th St., Ste C. All proceeds ...
Updated at 3:32 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24 Several people were held at gunpoint over the weekend and some were strip-searched after a man claimed money had been stolen from him at an apartment on Michigan Street, according to Lawrence police. LPD's Crisis Response Team was activated early Sunday ...
A multivehicle crash on the South Lawrence Trafficway on Saturday shut down a portion of Iowa Street for about an hour, according to a social media post from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies, troopers and Lawrence police responded to a crash on U.S. 40/Kansas Highway 10 near ...
TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas joined five dozen colleagues requesting a House vote on legislation extending federal tax credits set to expire at the end of December that were implemented to moderate Affordable Care Act insurance costs. In the letter signed by 59 lawmakers and ...
TOPEKA — Kansas Supreme Court Justice Larkin Walsh is not in her seat because of a predetermined plan or politics. She is there because of people, she said in her first moments after being formally sworn in as the state’s newest justice. Walsh pledged to be the type of justice all Kansans ...
To help shape future food policy and better support Indigenous food traditions and access to culturally significant foods, the Douglas County Food Policy Council brought community members together for public input and activities. The council has been working on a project dubbed the Indigenous ...
