The City of Lawrence has begun to relocate people experiencing homelessness who have been camping in some city parks to a temporary city-run campsite, with plans to create a long-term site in the near future.
With the recent opening of the new campsite, which is located near North Second Street on city-owned property between the Johnny’s Tavern back parking lot and the levee trail, the city is requiring some ...
City leaders will soon consider a request to increase the density of a 3.4-acre parcel of land to allow for duplexes to be built there instead of single-family homes.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider approving a request to rezone approximately 3.4 acres located at 1100 Kasold Drive from a single-dwelling residential zoning district to a multi-dwelling residential ...
Story updated at 5:55 p.m. Thursday:
Lawrence High School cafeteria workers picketed in front of the school Thursday afternoon to express concerns about understaffing and low pay.
The Lawrence school district has 114 classified staff vacancies overall, representing a 17% vacancy rate, with the majority of those openings being paraprofessional and food service positions. LHS cafeteria workers say they are ...
An employment agency says the Lawrence school district’s low pay for substitute teachers relative to surrounding districts is causing some substitutes to decline jobs in Lawrence.
The district uses daily substitutes as needed and also contracts for long-term substitutes through the employment agency Morgan Hunter, which requested that the district increase its pay to address the issue of substitutes ...
The year is 1955, and Lucy Tayiah Eads and her husband are returning to Oklahoma after 20 years of living in Lawrence.
The scene is the opening of Pauline Eads Sharp’s historical performance on the history and culture of the Kanza (Kaw) people, which she tells in first person from the perspective of Eads, her late grandmother and the first woman chief of the Kaw Nation.
“Her and her husband are packing ...
More than 200 teachers resigned or retired from the Lawrence school district last school year, with major reasons cited in exit surveys including pay, workload and district leadership.
As part of its meeting Monday, the Lawrence school board received a report on the number of classified and certified resignations, vacancies and current staffing levels, as well as information from exit surveys from teachers and ...
