City Commissioners approved an updated agreement that will tweak the work for key stormwater projects near downtown Lawrence and opted to not make changes to the project timeline ahead of the World Cup. The commission voted unanimously to execute a change order of around $4.8 million to ...
The Lawrence City Commission voted Tuesday night to uphold a decision that would deny a preliminary development plan for an apartment complex that would have featured 200 units along a portion of the golf course at the Jayhawk Club. Commissioners voted 4-1 to uphold a recommendation from the ...
Douglas County commissioners will consider buying a 23-acre parcel on Wednesday next to Lone Star Lake Park to improve park access. According to a memo included in the agenda, county staff have spent the past several months evaluating the long-term public value, cost, and compatibility of a ...
In an unusual turn of events, a defendant has pleaded up, not down, in a criminal case, and on Tuesday he was given a year of probation and ordered to have no contact with his victims. It's not clear why the 36-year-old defendant, Brian Hutton, a former high school English teacher, pleaded ...
WASHINGTON — Conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared to back a Republican-led drive that would erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president and overturn a quarter-century-old decision. A day after the justices ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy admiral who is retiring early from command of the campaign to destroy vessels allegedly carrying drugs near Venezuela spoke to key lawmakers Tuesday as Congress seeks more answers on President Donald Trump's mission, which, in one instance, killed two survivors ...
