Free State baseball shut out crosstown rival Lawrence High 10-0 on Tuesday at Hoglund Ballpark, earning some City Showdown ...

Late Tuesday night, the Lawrence City Commission approved a number of changes to how the governing body receives general public comment, including one that moves the period toward the end of the ...

Kansas “caught a break” by getting Hunter Dickinson back for a fifth season, as Bill Self put it Monday. Even though he hasn’t been a marquee professional prospect, the second-team All-American center ...

Karen Willey, the current chair of the Douglas County Commission, has filed for election to retain her seat on the commission. Willey, a Democrat, announced that she planned to file for election in ...

The details behind a remodel and addition project at the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center are narrowing, and Douglas County leaders could soon approve the project’s scope of work. At Wednesday’s ...

A man talks to police after a shooting on May 6, 2024, that left a dog dead and a woman injured after the woman's dog allegedly attacked the man and his dog in the 700 block of Ash Street in North ...

A favorite quote from the recent campus conflicts comes from Adam Young, a freshman at the New School in New York. After student trespassers were arrested and hauled to police headquarters, he ...

At some future time (if there are still humans left on Earth) some historian will conclude that the final fatal blow to the world’s democracies was social media. Prior to its inception, any individual ...

As college campus students protesting the Israel-Gaza War have dominated national news for the past weeks, I’m disappointed by the Journal-World’s choice of opinion page features covering these events ...

Lawrence police are investigating after a person was reported to have been shot in North Lawrence on Monday. Police responded ...

As spring sprung, both dandelions and dollars began to sprout in communities across the state. In Lawrence, the dandelions ...

Downtown Lawrence will be inundated once again at the end of May for the annual Busker Festival. The free outdoor festival is host to numerous street performers, including magicians, comedians, ...