Douglas County commissioners approved a site plan to help open up burials once again at a cemetery that hasn’t hosted a burial in over 100 years. On Wednesday, county commissioners greenlit a site ...

Cemeteries in Lawrence are nearing capacity, but Franklin Cemetery will someday soon start accepting burials — more than 100 years after the last person was buried there.

Douglas County will close a public recycling dropoff at the Stull church permanently on Friday because of frequent illegal ...