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Plans to build more than a thousand new homes and apartments west of the Bob Billings Parkway and South Lawrence Trafficway interchange hit a snag at Monday’s Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission meeting.
Planning commissioners on a 4-3 vote recommended denial of a request to annex 177 acres of property into the city limits. Unless the Lawrence City Commission overrides the Planning ...
Yes, golf is meant to be a genteel game, but there are occasional four-letter words associated with the sport. The one that has perhaps produced the biggest wince in recent years: T-i-m-e.
To play a moderately-challenging 18-hole course requires anywhere from four hours to a pup tent.
In a world with more time demands, the time issue has been seen as one of the sport’s biggest growth challenges. The time ...
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 ...
