If you doubt the creativity of city workers, look at what Lawrence’s public works and utilities staff has had to do to make the most of its aging, spread-out buildings. Where to store parts? Wherever they fit, in structures that were built in the ‘70s or even earlier to serve a much ...

Traffic has finally begun flowing again on Ninth Street, which had been closed to through traffic since December 2025 for the Jayhawk Watershed project. The City of Lawrence said in a news release that the street reopened Thursday, in time for Kansas football’s first home game of the 2026 ...

Lawrence has received a $50,000 grant from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas to make improvements to its bus stops on the southern part of Massachusetts Street. The city announced the funding from the insurer's Pathways to a Healthy Kansas program early Friday afternoon. It didn't provide ...

Developers are seeking a sales tax exemption on construction materials to build a 341-unit apartment complex near KU Innovation Park, and city leaders are set to vote on that request next week. The apartment project would be in The Crossing @ KU section of the West Campus near 23rd and Iowa ...

Voters this fall won't just be asked whether to raise Lawrence's transit sales tax from 0.2% to 0.3%, but also whether to keep it in place through 2037. That's what city staff shared this week about what the sales tax ballot question will ask. As the Journal-World reported, the Lawrence City ...

“City Hall is on fire,” Amber Sellers told her fellow city commissioners on Tuesday night. There are three options for the 2027 budget, and you can only grab one. One of them has a roughly 2-mill property tax rate increase and funds a fire and medical staffing expansion and employee raises ...