The City of Lawrence has made a statement on the vandalism of an art installation that recognizes Native tribes that historically or currently live in the area, condemning it as an act of hate and racism.
Mayor Brad Finkeldei read the statement regarding “Native Hosts” by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds at the opening of the City Commission’s meeting Tuesday. Finkeldei said Lawrencians deeply value the ...
City of Lawrence utilities and public works employees are seeking to unionize, potentially increasing the total number of unionized city employee groups to four.
Teamsters Local Union No. 696 announced in a news release Wednesday that the union had recently filed a petition with the City of Lawrence to conduct an election for the city’s Municipal Services and Operations Department. The department was created ...
Calling for denser and more efficient growth, City of Lawrence leaders have approved regulations that prohibit new neighborhoods in rural areas near the city’s boundaries unless that land is ready to be added to the city.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to approve an amendment to subdivision regulations for Lawrence and the unincorporated areas of Douglas County. ...
City leaders have expressed interest in moving forward with a $1.5 million proposal to resurface two grass soccer fields with turf and make other improvements at the Clinton Lake Youth Sports Complex.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the commission indicated interest in moving forward with a proposed amendment to the adopted 2022-2026 Capital Improvement Plan to include a Parks and Recreation project that would ...
With winter weather on the horizon, city officials are working to identify four additional locations to provide emergency overnight shelter during freezing temperatures for the approximately 200 people who are living outdoors.
As it stands, the city has identified only one location — a city recreation center — for an overnight cold-weather shelter, which will have the capacity to serve only 40 people, ...
As part of an ongoing project to commemorate the victims of a lynching that occurred in Lawrence in 1882, the public is invited to attend an event to collect soil from the site for a national memorial for lynching victims.
Pete Vinegar, Isaac King and George Robertson, all of whom were Black, were lynched by a mob at the Kansas River bridge near downtown Lawrence on June 10, 1882. The Lawrence branch of the ...
