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 ...

Lawrence city leaders have agreed to take part in a new pilot program that helps nonprofits take over certain blighted and abandoned homes and rehabilitate them as affordable housing. At its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to approve the city’s participation ...

It was on Ninth Street in the 1990s, Michael Almon remembers, that a movement for bike safety began in Lawrence – and it began with a tragedy. Almon, leader of the Sustainability Action Network, recounted it on Monday morning: how, in 1998, Jon Hermes was riding his bicycle at Ninth and ...

Lawrence has been chosen for a pilot program that uses a state law to acquire and rehabilitate abandoned homes for affordable housing, and city leaders could give their final approval for it next week. At its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will be asked to approve the city’s ...