Kaw Valley Almanac for Aug. 4-10, 2025
Believe it or not, these bugs are the same species: the two mating adult green stink bugs on the right looked like the round striped bug on the left when they were in the nymph stage.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Kids Expo to offer free school supplies, shoes and more for Lawrence students
The Lawrence Schools Foundation will soon host its second annual Kids Expo, offering creative activities for families, free screenings, free shoes, back-to-school supplies and more for students who need them.
2nd Street to close, Iowa traffic pattern to shift and more traffic updates in Lawrence
About half a mile of Second Street will close to through traffic, work on Iowa Street will flip to the other side of the road and more roadwork will be underway in the coming week.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
Young artists of Van Go build benches, connections
Perspective can be everything — particularly in the humanities, as one client of the Van Go Benchmark program pointed out. The KU Hall Center for the Humanities commissioned one of 20 custom benches unveiled Friday, each made by a young artist.
In federal lawsuit, students allege Lawrence school district’s AI surveillance tool violates their rights
Nine current and former students have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Lawrence Public Schools, alleging the district’s use of a controversial AI surveillance tool violates student privacy.
What to expect at Vinland Fair 2025
The 2025 Vinland Fair is gearing up for another year of tractor pulls, nail-driving contests and homemade pie, all in the name of celebrating small-town life.
Federal Leavenworth prison modifies conditions for migrants after letters reveal squalor
Problems linger in a Kansas federal prison holding immigrant detainees, even after altering some practices that a coalition of lawyers, civil rights groups and advocates revealed were harmful to those inside.
Evergy receives Missouri approval to build gas plants, solar farms after Kansas thumbs up
Missouri utility regulators on Thursday approved Evergy’s request to build three natural gas plants and two solar farms, freeing the company to move forward with infrastructure projects that will cost more than $2.75 billion.
Maya Hodison/Lawrence Times
KC ice cream shop franchise coming to west Lawrence
A Lawrence business owner plans to open a franchise of Kansas City-based ice cream shop Betty Rae’s this fall in west Lawrence.
Mackenzie Clark/Lawrence Times
Lawrence man found not guilty of threatening couple with hatchet
More than two years after a Lawrence man was accused of threatening a couple with a hatchet near the former city-run camp for people experiencing homelessness, a jury found him not guilty Thursday.
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