After two days of debating at Garden City on Jan. 17 and 18, the varsity debate team came back home with a 4-speaker state championship, bringing down the previous reigning champions, Washburn Rural, to...

The 2024-2025 season embarked its playoff journey when the College Football Playoffs Selection Committee announced the top 12 teams in the nation who will compete for the national championship title on...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated since original release with added context regarding the announcement date of double casting. On Nov. 20, Free State Theatre announced their winter play cast...

It was the same as any other ordinary day as senior Lucas Fearn and ceramics teacher Mr. Lewis ate lunch together after school in the ceramics room. “On Wednesday of the second week of school...

Cleo & Leo on Elm Street is a new Mexican-inspired café in North Lawrence and opened in October. The owners have made the most of the small space by adding outdoor seating and several tables with...

Exposure to low temperatures is associated with deadly risks like hypothermia or frostbite, which, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless, kills over 700 unhoused people a year. When Douglas...

On Nov. 23, some of the top-ranked Division 1 men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in the National Championship meet at the Thomas Zimmer Championship Cross Country Course in Madison, Wisconsin....

On Monday Dec. 9, after two readings of a new district wide cell phone policy, the USD 497 Board of Education voted 7-0 in favor of the new policy. Effective Jan. 6, the policy will implement a cell phone...