Lawrence's Historic Resources Commission voted Thursday for further review of a proposed “very-high-density” apartment complex to see how the design could better fit the guidelines of the historic Oread neighborhood. Commissioners voted 5-0 Thursday night with one abstention to refer the ...
The City of Lawrence on Thursday announced that the next Municipal Court judge will be prosecutor Elizabeth Hafoka. After a national search, the city selected Hafoka, who has more than 14 years of experience in the City of Lawrence Prosecutor's Office, where she has been the supervising ...
City leaders are hoping Lawrence will be chosen for a pilot project that uses a little-utilized state law to acquire and rehabilitate abandoned homes for affordable housing. The project is by the nonprofit organization Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City, which put out a request for ...
Two buildings in the Oread neighborhood that city staff says have historic value could be a problem for the first “very-high-density” housing project in Lawrence's history. The project is Lawrence businessman Doug Compton's two-building, 300-bedroom apartment complex called The Place @ KU. ...
“It’s not good for printing,” this photo that Gary Mark Smith took of a few boys on the streets of Tangier, Morocco. It’s not violent or dark or frightening, like so much of the stuff he’s seen in nearly half a century of photographing the most dangerous streets on Earth. But it’s ...
After the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center stepped away from a permanent supportive housing project, an advisory board is recommending the city claw back more than half a million in affordable housing funds — a first for the city. As the Journal-World reported, Bert Nash said last ...