The City of Lawrence and the union that represents firefighters and other emergency personnel are at an impasse on wages, and the City Commission will be asked to resolve it at its meeting on Tuesday. Last year, the city and the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1596 came to a ...
Last November, when Lawrence and Douglas County planning officials set their traffic safety targets for 2025, their target was to have under 8.3 fatal crashes in Douglas County. So far, the county is under that, with just five. Now, they're considering a target for 2026 that looks a lot lower: ...
Another parking garage in downtown Lawrence will soon be adorned with some public art, and the city is currently seeking applications from local artists to make it happen. In a news release Wednesday, the city announced a call for artists or teams of artists to submit qualifications to create ...
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday night approved funding the second phase of construction for the city’s new $130 million Municipal Services and Operations campus. Commissioners voted 4-0 to award a contract to the construction firm McCownGordon for just over $57 million of work on the ...
The increases city staff has proposed for water, stormwater and trash rates for 2026 and beyond are part of a trend of steady increases over the past several years, and one of the utility rates — for stormwater — has nearly doubled from 2019 to the present day. The city posts utility rates ...
The City of Lawrence will be redesigning its website, lawrenceks.gov, in the coming months, and it's looking for input on how residents navigate and find information on the current site. In a news release Tuesday, the city said it was working with IT company Granicus on the redesign, and that ...