Participants who gave the Lawrence school district some feedback in the fall said teachers and staff are the backbone, but they see areas for improvement in student discipline and more.
Apolina Bahati’s decades-long journey to United States citizenship came to a close Monday at a naturalization ceremony in the marble-enveloped rotunda of the Kansas Capitol.
A tuberculosis outbreak that started in Wyandotte County has grown to be the largest in the U.S. since the CDC started tracking the illness in the 1950s, health officials said.
”Today it’s our transgender population, but who’s next? … State-sponsored discrimination has no place in our democracy, and this is what this bill is all about,” an attorney for the Kansas Department of Revenue told Kansas Court of Appeals judges Monday.
Look for eagles flying overhead, perched in cottonwoods or even checking out their large nests. Current census estimates that there are 3,000 eagles in the state.
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A district committee on Monday will update the school board on its interest in exploring a feeder system in the future instead of making any boundary changes for next year. The board will also consider a bid to install solar panels for Sunflower Elementary.
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The Douglas County sheriff says his deputies are “not here to do the bidding of the federal government” and aren’t looking to track people down for ICE, but they will adhere to the law.
Researchers at Kansas State University say the number of cases of an allergic reaction to red meat tied to tick bites is increasing across the state.
Two occupants and pets that were in a North Lawrence house fire Friday afternoon are safe and a firefighter suffered a “minor injury,” according to Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical.
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Lawrence Public Schools will keep students’ information private and support their constitutional right to education regardless of their immigration status, the superintendent told families Friday.
