As a bill targeting illicit e-cigarettes makes its way through the Kansas Legislature, a health official in Lawrence says the problem of unauthorized vape products is real, and that underage buyers here might have access to them. The bill is Senate Bill 355, and it passed the Kansas Senate and ...
More biking, more safety features and less drag racing: That’s what city staff is hoping for in a project later this year that will shrink Massachusetts Street from four lanes to three. The $6.6 million construction project, which is still in the design phase, is slated to start in August ...
A layout drawing for the Lawrence airport that’s required by the Federal Aviation Administration got the approval of the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday night. Commissioners voted 4-0 at their meeting to approve the drawing, which shows a variety of structures and improvements at ...
City leaders on Tuesday gave final approval to an incentives package for the redevelopment of the historic Reuter Organ building in downtown Lawrence – a project the developer said was “too big” to do without help. The Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1 on Tuesday, with Vice Mayor Mike ...
The City of Lawrence extended the closure of Ninth Street near downtown an additional block west to accommodate further construction. The city closed Ninth Street from Louisiana Street to Mississippi Street to traffic on Tuesday as part of the work on the Jayhawk Watershed Middle Reach Project ...
Five poets chosen from an annual poetry contest will see their work displayed on the city’s electric buses for the next year. According to a press release from Lawrence Transit, the five winners of the Lawrence Transit Poet Laureate program will have their work displayed on a bus along ...