City leaders have deferred their decision on the design of the easternmost section of 19th Street, asking staff to bring back an option with a narrower roadway.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to defer its choice of a concept design for the project to extend the roadway and reconstruct a segment of it. The city has budgeted approximately $3.3 million to rebuild a ...
For Lawrence resident Laura Green, years of advocacy for progressive marijuana laws began with one event.
“I originally became aware of the harm that was being done to people through a family member who got cancer in the '80s and was recommended to use marijuana, but then didn’t have a way to get it,” Green said. “And my family are not criminals, so we wanted to follow the law.”
After that ...
City leaders will soon decide on the design of the easternmost section of 19th Street, which has generated concerns from neighbors.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider approving a concept design for the project to extend the roadway and reconstruct a segment of it. The city has budgeted approximately $3.3 million to rebuild a half-mile segment of 19th Street beginning at ...
The City of Lawrence has joined a community coalition led by the NAACP to memorialize the lynching of three black men near downtown in 1882.
The Lawrence chapter of the NAACP is working with the Equal Justice Initiative, which created a national lynching memorial in Montgomery, Ala., to erect a historical marker with information about the lynching. In response to a request from the NAACP, the Lawrence City ...
The harsh winter and heavy rains of the past year have taken a toll on Lawrence streets, causing the city to delay repairs on some neighborhood streets in favor of addressing issues with busier roadways.
Lawrence had 11 snow or ice storms and record-breaking rainfall the past year, as the Journal-World has previously reported. City engineers say the extreme weather has caused all the city streets to ...
City leaders have decided to spend another $1 million on the police department’s new headquarters in west Lawrence.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to spend an additional $1 million to add three more police functions at the headquarters, bringing the total project budget to $19.5 million. As originally proposed, the first phase of the project included a ...
