City of Lawrence leaders will soon consider whether to start charging people for disposable grocery and shopping bags in an effort to reduce plastic waste.
The city’s Sustainability Advisory Board voted last summer to make the issue of single-use plastics one of its priorities, and since then a committee has been studying a potential plastic bag ban. The committee has completed its review and is ...
The city has released a mix of rainwater and sewage into Brush Creek after heavy rainfall over the weekend.
The city announced in a news release Monday afternoon that, after posting signs along the creek, it began a release of rainwater and sewage into the creek about 9 p.m. Sunday. The city continued the release for about 15 hours, or until about 12:20 p.m. Monday.
The release was done near Pump Station 9, ...
City, county and school district leaders say they want to work together in their efforts to address equity issues in the community, and they took a first step toward doing so Monday.
Elected leaders and officials from the City of Lawrence, Douglas County and the Lawrence school district met Monday afternoon to discuss each entity’s efforts related to equity, and they resolved to communicate more on the ...
If a proposed pay raise for Lawrence city commissioners is approved, it would move commissioners from among the lowest-paid elected city leaders in the state to among the highest, trailing only Wichita, which has about four times the population of Lawrence.
An increase in pay for Lawrence's five city commissioners is on the table after commissioners have gone 20 years without an increase in pay.
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City leaders agree that the coin-fed meters and other outdated devices used to enforce parking rules downtown need to be modernized, but how much parking rates and tickets should increase next year to fund that modernization is up for debate.
City Manager Tom Markus’ recommended budget for 2020 proposes increasing parking meter, garage and permit rates, as well as the fine for parking tickets. If ultimately ...
More than a dozen people crowded into a small meeting room at the Lawrence Parks and Recreation administrative building Thursday to explain why they thought the Community Building should remain open and free to the public.
A father of two told the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board that when he was unable to pay the water bill, his family went to the Community Building to shower. Another woman said when she ...
