Lawrence kicked off the holiday season on Friday with the annual tradition of turning on the downtown holiday lights and rescuing Santa from the roof of Weaver's with a ladder truck. The event had a new organizer this year — Lawrence Central Rotary Club — after many years of being hosted by ...

About 900 runners participated in this year's Lawrence Turkey Trot 5K, which started at Woodlawn Elementary on Thanksgiving morning and ran through the North Lawrence neighborhood and along the Kansas River levee trail.

On Wednesday afternoon, volunteers were preparing pies, potatoes and more and packing to-go boxes for the LINK Thanksgiving Dinner, which will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the basement of First Christian Church, 1000 Kentucky St. The annual community meal is free and open to the public.

Lawrence honored its veterans on Saturday with the annual Veterans Day Parade through downtown Lawrence. This year, the parade's grand marshal was Warren Corman, who served as a Navy Seabee during World War II and later helped design several buildings on KU's campus, including Allen ...

Ghosts, dinosaurs, aliens and more creatures were featured Monday as trick-or-treaters converged on Massachusetts Street for Halloween.

All kinds of gruesome ghouls descended on downtown Lawrence on Thursday during Lawrence's annual Zombie Walk. The participants — some in elaborate costumes — met in South Park and then shambled down Massachusetts Street.