City leaders will continue their discussion of changes to the local resolution governing city employee unions with the hope that city and union representatives can come to more agreement on certain items.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to defer adopting a resolution and asked that city staff and union leaders further discuss some measures and hopefully come to ...
City leaders will soon consider changes to the local resolution governing city employee unions that an area union says are “anti-worker.”
Teamsters Local 696 requested changes in December to the resolution that union representatives say will ensure employees’ right to organize and join a union, but have come out against the measures that city staff have proposed in response to its request. As part of its ...
This story was updated at 5:38 p.m.
Leavenworth County commissioners have denied a permit that the annual Brew to Brew Relay needs to complete its course to Lawrence, citing crude behavior and safety issues.
Leavenworth County commissioners voted to deny the permit for the 44-mile relay, which traditionally runs between a brewery in Kansas City and a brewery in Lawrence. The denial, which came Wednesday as ...
A Lawrence man who sued the City of Lawrence over the Queens Road taxing districts continues his legal efforts to stop the $5.3 million road project from proceeding as planned.
Last year, Queens Road homeowner Kurt Schaake filed a lawsuit against the city in Douglas County District Court claiming that the taxing districts the city set up to fund the project are arbitrary and capricious and therefore out of ...
When a group of residents were asked what changes they wanted to see in Lawrence in 10 years, common replies included more affordable housing, higher paying jobs and progress addressing social issues such as homelessness.
About 40 people attended a public meeting Wednesday at the Carnegie Building to gather input for the city’s 2020 strategic plan. The strategic plan, which updates the plan created by the ...
The City of Lawrence has revoked the contractor license of Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel following his recent felony convictions and ordered all work to stop on his current project.
A red stop work order from the city’s building safety division was seen taped to a door at Hawker Apartments, 1011 Missouri St. The order calls for all work to stop on the project effective Tuesday, noting that a valid ...
