With dry weather across the state, the winter mushroom, the puffball, is fully mature and dried out, looking a little like a biscuit on the ground (left). Step on it (right) and you’ll see the “puff” of spores.
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Haskell was able to take a step forward, rehiring several employees who were fired without cause under federal orders, but it could face two steps back with Trump administration demands for reduction-in-force plans.
LMH Health and Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health are partnering to offer a WIC clinic in Baldwin City on the third Tuesday of each month.
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No one was injured and no structures were lost despite long battles with several grass fires in rural Douglas County, including one 200-acre fire east of Stull, Friday into Saturday morning.
An upcoming event will invite people to learn about and share feedback on a new mural a Lawrence artist is creating in honor of the La Yarda community.
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The future is murky for a Lawrence school district bakery project as well as projects at four local farms and vineyards after their grant funding was frozen this week under orders from Trump and DOGE.
KU is among 45 schools now under federal investigation because one of its graduate programs has been part of a partnership aiming to serve people of color.
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Community members can kick off spring break with a downtown celebration as the Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day Parade is set to return Monday.
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The Lawrence City Commission will soon consider a major change to the new land development code that could hinder the code’s intended goal of helping people find and afford housing, weeks before it’s set to go into effect.
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Haskell Indian Nations University faculty members and many employees who were terminated in baseless federal job cuts have been reinstated.
