Years after a study said it might have to move, Lawrence’s new city manager says Fire Station 3 on Sixth Street is already in “the perfect place,” and that renovating it instead of relocating it could save millions of dollars. On Tuesday, city commissioners unanimously approved a ...

An economic development incentive request for a 341-unit market-rate apartment complex near KU Innovation Park won approval from the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday. Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve a resolution expressing the city’s intent to issue $50 million in Industrial Revenue ...

Though Lawrence's new public works and utilities campus is normally closed to the public, residents can get an inside look at an open house next week. The city in a news release on Tuesday announced that the Municipal Services and Operations campus, 1840 O'Connell Road, will be open from 5 to ...

If you doubt the creativity of city workers, look at what Lawrence’s public works and utilities staff has had to do to make the most of its aging, spread-out buildings. Where to store parts? Wherever they fit, in structures that were built in the ‘70s or even earlier to serve a much ...

Traffic has finally begun flowing again on Ninth Street, which had been closed to through traffic since December 2025 for the Jayhawk Watershed project. The City of Lawrence said in a news release that the street reopened Thursday, in time for Kansas football’s first home game of the 2026 ...

Lawrence has received a $50,000 grant from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas to make improvements to its bus stops on the southern part of Massachusetts Street. The city announced the funding from the insurer's Pathways to a Healthy Kansas program early Friday afternoon. It didn't provide ...