Lawrence has been chosen for a pilot program that uses a state law to acquire and rehabilitate abandoned homes for affordable housing, and city leaders could give their final approval for it next week. At its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will be asked to approve the city’s ...

I think city commissioners on Tuesday night should have been pretty interested in taking the State of Kansas for about $80 million. I think they should continue to be interested in such a scheme. Yes, a scheme. That’s basically what this decision of whether to include the soon-to-open ...

This year's Phoenix Award honorees have been selected, and you may have experienced their work on the radio, or in a middle school auditorium, or at the airport, or even on the label of a beer bottle. On Wednesday night, the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission chose the six winners for the ...

Story updated at 3:24 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15: Lawrence’s affordable housing advisers won’t be considering the Douglas County Housing Stabilization Collaborative's request for city funding for 2027 – not because they don’t want to fund it, but because its application came in too ...

When the visitors from Hiratsuka, Japan, stopped by the Lawrence Public Library on Tuesday, there was someone special whom Karen Allen wanted to meet. Allen, who works in administration at the library, asked which one of them was Daisuke’s mom. It was Mieko Sasaki, who came up to her and, ...

What’s the worst thing that can happen? That’s what a group seeking a STAR bond district for an arena, a flight school and other developments on the edges of Lawrence asked the City Commission on Tuesday night. That’s what Commissioner Kristine Polian wanted to know, too – what’s the ...