Local students — ranging from law school students to elementary students — will get a chance to visit in person with a ...

FRIDAY, MARCH 27 75th Anniversary Fee-Waived Pet Adoptions, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, noon-6 p.m., Lawrence Humane Society ...

A longtime newspaper journalist turned academic leader has been named as the first finalist to become the next dean of the ...

In his decades of living in East Lawrence, Tony Peterson says, a lot has changed, but “the Yart Sale has always been one of the constants.” “I’m not even sure how long ago it started,” he says. It’s ...

The Douglas County Commission meeting room erupted in cheers on Wednesday night after commissioners approved a tenant eviction defense pilot program. A majority of those cheers came from local ...

Douglas County commissioners unanimously approved a $300,000 funding request from HeadQuarters Kansas to help keep the ...

Kansas coach Lance Leipold’s 19 years as a head coach have featured multiple situations in which his patience and his convictions were rewarded. When he went 7-3 at Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2012, in ...

Kansas quarterback Cole Ballard (left) and defensive end Garrett Martin high-five during Kansas football’s spring practice on Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Lawrence.

A car went into the Kansas River just off the Eighth Street boat ramp on Wednesday after the driver took a wrong turn, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, and it’s now been removed from ...

Paula Kissinger is in her 70s now, but she vividly remembers responding to a call as a police officer in the summer of 1981: A young student had been brutally raped at knifepoint by a stranger on the ...

As Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical prepares to add a new station in northwest Lawrence, Station 6, the department’s stats show that its two existing stations on the west side are responding to ...

The Lawrence school district announced the appointments of five leaders in key roles beginning in the 2026-2027 school year.