As urban growth spreads into the Wakarusa River Valley south of Lawrence, Douglas County will conduct an assessment of which areas to preserve in order to minimize the impact of future flooding events. The Wakarusa River corridor mainly consists of an undeveloped floodplain along with ...
The Douglas County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council has adopted a new three-year strategic plan focusing on how to improve the criminal legal system. On Tuesday, the council adopted the plan to guide its efforts for fiscal years 2025 to 2027 after asking for public input on areas that ...
New figures are in for Douglas County’s 2024 finances, and it is shaping up to be a year of big gains for several of the county’s savings accounts. The county’s general operating fund — which pays for the bulk of county services — collected $9.3 million more in revenues than what ...
They say they're "not experts yet" in artificial intelligence, but Lawrence Dao and Daniel Dao think they're not alone — and that there's a market for teaching kids about these powerful electronic tools. The two Lawrence Virtual School students — Lawrence is in ninth grade and Daniel in ...
When you pass by a tanker truck on a highway, sometimes diamond-shaped cards can be seen indicating what hazardous materials they are carrying. These are called hazmat cards, which are color-coded and identify the types of hazardous materials a truck is transporting, helping emergency ...
County leaders voted Wednesday to let the city-county health department opt out of doing annual sanitary inspections at schools, stating they wanted the agency to focus on different kinds of inspections that aren't already being done by other agencies. On Wednesday, the commission unanimously ...