City leaders will soon consider changing the city’s no-camping rules to be more accommodating to homeless people when local shelters are full.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider adding an exemption to the city ordinance that currently makes it illegal to camp on public right-of-way. The exemption, aimed at decriminalizing homelessness, would allow people to camp on any ...
On a portion of the Kansas River bank that was once choked out by invasive vines, native wildflowers are now blooming and pawpaw trees are taking root.
The postcard-like scene is a result of a two-year project to remove invasive species from a one-mile stretch of the Kansas River and replant the area with native trees, grasses and flowers. Friends of the Kaw, a nonprofit preservation and advocacy group, was ...
City business leaders are hoping that if customers know businesses are following health guidelines to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, they will be more likely to visit restaurants, shops and other businesses.
As part of that effort, several local business organizations have created a campaign to recognize businesses — and make them more recognizable to potential customers — that have pledged to ...
As protests against police killings of black people and calls for reform continue across the country, Lawrence Mayor Jennifer Ananda is calling for the city to reallocate some police funding to social services, among other changes.
At the opening of the Lawrence City Commission’s meeting Tuesday, Ananda called for various changes, which the commission agreed to consider as part of a future meeting. Ananda ...
There was not enough support among city leaders on Tuesday to abandon Lawrence's contentious sidewalk repair program, but leaders were interested in a few limited tweaks to how the program operates.
Currently, the program generally requires homeowners and other property owners to pay to repair city sidewalks that border their property. As part of a work session Tuesday, commissioners discussed several questions ...
City leaders will soon consider an agreement that would allow nearly all of the energy that powers city buildings to come from renewable sources.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider entering into a 20-year agreement with Evergy Energy, formerly Westar Energy, for 8 megawatts of renewable energy annually. The energy would be generated from the Ponderosa Wind Farm in Beaver ...
