Electricity and gas companies have a special rule that governs when they can shut off services in the winter months, but you might not have known the City of Lawrence’s water service limits its cold-weather shutoffs, as well. The city’s current practice is to not shut off customers’ ...

Lawrence city commissioners all agree that they want a new fire station in northwest Lawrence – but they don’t yet agree on a proposed property tax increase to fund the expansion. On Tuesday, the City Commission had its first chance to discuss city staff’s 2027 budget proposal, which ...

James Chiselom doesn’t like to talk about how the Lawrence Community Shelter looked in 2024, when he started as executive director. “People couldn’t feel safe here, people were abused here, people were victimized here,” he said. The shelter had cycled through seven other leaders in ...

The City of Lawrence's preliminary budget for 2027 would include an approximately 3-mill property tax rate increase for fire and medical expansion, and city commissioners will get their first chance to discuss it at their meeting next week. On Tuesday, the commission will be asked to give ...

One of Mike Dever’s regrets from his earlier terms on the City Commission is that “I went eight years without spending money on art.” Dever first served on the commission from 2007 to 2015, a time that included the Great Recession. Back then, he said at Tuesday’s Lawrence City ...

What do cities, counties and educational institutions need to do to avoid fines of up to $125,000 a day under Kansas' new anti-transgender bathroom law? The answer at the local level seems to be: We're still trying to figure that out. The law, SB 244, took effect in February after the ...