Just days before a trial was to begin in a 7-year-old rape case, the defendant has asked a Douglas County judge for more time to prepare his defense.
On Wednesday, Judge Amy Hanley — with considerable reluctance, it appeared — granted the request of defense attorney Joe Huerter, who is ...
The bus service for the City of Lawrence and the University of Kansas has added two more electric buses to its fleet, featuring designs from Indigenous artist Iris Cliff.
In a news release Thursday, Lawrence Transit announced that the two new buses are the sixth and seventh to be added to its ...
Potter Lake, the signature body of water on KU’s Lawrence campus, is set to get a major renovation this summer, the university has announced.
Work will begin soon to dredge the lake, which is uphill from KU’s football stadium and downhill from the university’s Campanile. The project ...
The City of Lawrence will host six community meetings next week to discuss a recently published consolidated draft of the updated Land Development Code, the document that guides how Lawrence should grow.
As the Journal-World has reported, the city is nearly two years into the process of ...
Sam Quinones is neither a doctor nor a scientist, but he’s seen and talked to enough addicts that he has a piece of advice that he wishes the groups Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous would heed.
“I think they need to lose that second word,” Quinones told a local audience ...
Updated at 4:35 p.m. Thursday, May 9
The Douglas County Commission has committed to a scope of work for a project to renovate and add space at the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center and build a new public safety building near the Douglas County Jail, which comes with an estimated price tag of ...