August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday will consider extending permits for a potential solar farm north of Lawrence while a court injunction blocks progress on the facility’s construction.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Douglas County Emergency Management will lead a two-hour training session on how to identify storms and stay safe in severe weather. The session is free and open to the public.
Sandhill cranes have been heading north through Kansas. Here’s an outdoor checklist for this week: See if you can hear a frog, see a goose, see a maple tree blooming, taste a wild onion leaf and smell a crocus.
August Rudisell / Lawrence Times
The City of Lawrence’s compost facility is set to open for the season on Saturday, March 7.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Douglas County Emergency Management will soon host a workshop to help local businesses, communications workers and event organizers to prepare for extreme heat around the World Cup.
This blackbird-leafed elm tree is shedding its bird leaves in a gust of spring migration. We will gain 14 minutes of daylight this week.
The Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board will ask the Lawrence City Commission to revise a renewable energy ordinance that city staff members want to instead repeal and replace with a climate neutrality resolution.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
The City of Lawrence is receiving a grant from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to put toward reducing climate pollution.
This blackbird-leafed elm tree is shedding its bird leaves in a gust of spring migration. We will gain 14 minutes of daylight this week.
Here are the opened male blossoms of the silver maple, resting on tree bark. Some maples are male while others are female, and some have both types of flowers.
