A plan to have nearby property owners pay the majority of the costs for the $5.3 million reconstruction of Queens Road has cleared its last hurdle at City Hall.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted, 4-1, with Commissioner Leslie Soden opposing, to reject two protest petitions against the benefit districts that would pay for improvements to the pothole-ridden, gravel- and ...
Lawrence city commissioners will soon consider whether to adopt a more comprehensive approach to neighborhood traffic problems that would go beyond adding speed bumps or other devices to streets.
Earlier this year, the city announced it was re-evaluating its traffic calming program, which attempts to address issues such as speeding and cut-through traffic by adding physical devices such as speed bumps or ...
City leaders will consider adding three issues to their list of legislative priorities, including a statement opposed to making the South Lawrence Trafficway into a toll road.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider approving its Lawrence Legislative Priority Statement, which it sends annually to the state legislative delegation. The proposed statement comprises 21 ...
About 250 homeowners in the special taxing districts set to pay millions of dollars for improvements to Queens Road have signed onto protest petitions opposing the districts, but the city says the petitions are not enough to stop the process.
According to state law, 51 percent or more of property owners — whose properties also represent more than half of the geographic area of the taxing district — must ...
A woman who alleges she was seriously injured when refereeing a volleyball game at a City of Lawrence recreation center is suing the city for negligence.
Overland Park resident Barbara Culton filed a lawsuit against the city in Douglas County District Court in October related to injuries she said she suffered in February 2017. Culton’s attorney, Thomas Stein, of Kansas City, Mo., previously sent a letter to ...
That the next scheduled immigration hearing for Lawrence scientist Syed Jamal and his wife won’t occur for more than three years does not surprise the Jamals’ attorney, who cited an ever-increasing logjam in the federal court system.
On Tuesday, a judge in Kansas City Immigration Court set the Jamals’ next hearing for April 27, 2022, three years and five months from now. One of the Jamals’ attorneys, ...
