One of the newcomer candidates for the Lawrence City Commission has withdrawn from the race. John Martin, an IT manager for the financial services organization TIAA, said in an email to the Journal-World that he withdrew after further consideration, with both his family and his employer in ...

After months of delay, the city has scheduled the first meeting of a work group that will consider changes to how the city handles complaints against police and other policing matters. The Community Police Oversight Work Group will hold its first meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday in the ...

In their first chance to weigh in on key policy questions regarding the city’s upcoming budget for 2024, at least a couple of city leaders said they’d like to see the city keep its property tax rate flat or try to decrease it, but that revenue numbers would be a deciding factor. As part ...

Several community cleanup days are coming up where neighborhood residents, volunteers and those experiencing homelessness will be working together to clean up areas where people have been camping and other public spaces. The public is invited to join the volunteers. Lawrence resident and ...

Leaders with the City of Lawrence and Douglas County indicated Monday that they see a need to add at least one more Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical station soon — but for now, though, they still have questions about what the best route to making that happen would be. The Lawrence City ...

As the estimated cost of building a new field operations campus for the City of Lawrence continues to increase — now estimated to cost about $135 million total — city leaders will soon consider using a method other than traditional bidding as a way to partially control costs. As part of ...