Bring your hammers and saws to far west Lawrence. It is beginning to look like there will be years worth of building projects in the area.
This week, city commissioners approved the annexation of 300 acres that could accommodate several hundred new homes west of the South Lawrence Trafficway. Next week, Lawrence-Douglas County Planning commissioners will consider approving another annexation that could bring ...
Now arriving at Gate 1 of the Lawrence Regional Airport: A big development debate, and baggage from 2007.
Lawrence-Douglas County planning commissioners on Monday will consider a request by the KU Endowment Association to annex nearly 140 acres next to the Lawrence Regional Airport for future industrial or business development of an uncertain nature.
Annexation is simply the legal term for bringing the ...
It has long been known that a cemetery is one of the surest forms of tax relief, but come to find out such relief doesn’t have to come with a tombstone. The volunteer boards who run the local cemeteries do a pretty good job of controlling taxes in their own right.
The Journal-World reviewed every proposed property tax rate in Douglas County ahead of upcoming budget hearings to see which local governments ...
A spend down of Douglas County government’s more than $100 million in reserve funds indeed began in 2025, but it didn’t reach into the county’s broadest fund, recently released financial statements show.
The county’s general operating fund — the account that funds day-to-day operations of county government — saw its reserves grow by more than $3 million last year and began 2026 more than $5 million ...
The annual Jayhawk migration is set to begin this week, and per usual, it will involve lots of vehicles and crammed city streets near residence halls across the University of Kansas campus.
KU students will start arriving en masse at KU dormitories on Tuesday, with the heaviest traffic days expected to be Wednesday and Thursday, KU officials said.
In general, Lawrence motorists should expect slow moving ...
A portion of the Bowersock Dam on the Kansas River has failed, but it is not creating any flooding concerns. Quite the opposite, actually.
The dam, which sits on the stretch of the Kaw that runs alongside downtown Lawrence, isn’t a flood control dam but rather helps provide water for Kansas’ only hydroelectric power plant, the Bowersock Mills & Power Company.
The dam, though, does more than that. It ...
