I think Lawrence might be the most compassionate community in Kansas. Think about it: Local government created its own mental health center to provide the compassion the state’s understaffed mental healthcare system hasn’t provided. Lawrence has not one, but two, tiny home projects ...

A mistake was made, and what ensued was not a great look for local government. Last week, the city of Lawrence’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board met to begin the process of awarding about $700,000 of taxpayer funds to affordable housing projects. Step No. 1 of the process is to determine ...

A screening of “Beetlejuice” that a local movie club was planning at Oak Hill Cemetery this weekend has been canceled – but not because it broke any cemetery rules. Rather, it’s because what the city approved was different from – and more limited than – what the event was turning ...

I can’t seem to get Costco off my mind. The thoughts are about $80 million deep. As I wrote last week, that’s a conservative estimate of how much money the store — which opens in northwest Lawrence on Oct. 29 — will send to the state of Kansas in sales tax dollars over the next 20 ...

For the second year in a row, the Lawrence Police Department has received a top honor for traffic safety from the Kansas Department of Transportation. KDOT law enforcement liaison Don Hughes presented the "platinum" safety award to members of LPD on Tuesday night at the Lawrence City ...

Before they voted 5-0 to add extra layers of public hearings and oversight to the approval process for data centers, Lawrence city commissioners wanted the crowd at City Hall to know what they weren’t voting on. “This is not a discussion on what final regulations we’ll look at two years ...