The Lawrence Police Department on Wednesday announced that one of its officers died on April 3 and that the Douglas County Sheriff's Office is conducting an investigation, though "no foul play is suspected." In a news release, LPD said that 28-year-old Officer Zachary Garcia-Kerns honorably ...
State law requires residents of a county to be notified of a lot of different legal matters that are underway at any given time. That includes pending foreclosures of homes, new ordinances proposed by local governments, legal name changes of your neighbors, and even the sales that dispose of ...
Sixty people from 23 states have applied to be Lawrence’s next city manager, and the Lawrence City Commission plans to start evaluating those applications as early as next week. Lawrence is currently looking for a successor for City Manager Craig Owens, who announced last year that he would ...
Lawrence will soon start accepting applications for a construction manager for its new fire station, Fire Station 6, which is expected to start construction next year. On Tuesday, the commission voted 5-0 to approve a method called “construction manager at risk” to build Fire Station 6. ...
Good people can change bad laws — if they aren’t too scared to try, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a Lawrence crowd on Tuesday evening. The power of people and the need for courage were a pair of themes that Sotomayor came back to multiple times during an approximately ...
As the City of Lawrence prepares to start its next strategic plan, a survey is showing that residents are feeling good about arts and culture, but not so good about the economy, city leaders heard on Tuesday. At their weekly meeting, city commissioners heard the results of the National ...
