Two years after the city initially sought improvements, City of Lawrence leaders have approved a proposal to form a work group to review and recommend changes to how the city handles complaints against police.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 5-0 to approve a proposal to form a Community-Police Oversight Work Group to review and make recommendations related to the police ...
Facing concerns from neighbors, city leaders have rejected a request to rezone two residential lots as part of a plan to build a new drive-thru coffee shop on 23rd Street.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 3-2, with Amber Sellers and Brad Finkeldei in favor, to reject a request to rezone 0.52 acres on the south side of West 22nd Terrace from single-family residential to ...
City of Lawrence leaders will soon decide whether to donate about five acres of city-owned land toward a project that could build more than 100 affordable housing units — apartments, row homes and duplexes — on a 15-acre site in west Lawrence.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider donating 4.64 acres of land at the southeast corner of Kansas Highway 10 and Bob Billings ...
City of Lawrence leaders will soon consider a proposal to form a work group to review and recommend changes to how the city handles complaints against police.
As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider a proposal to form a Community-Police Oversight Work Group to review and make recommendations related to the police complaint process and the city’s Community Police Review ...
Three community events will soon be held to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the lynching of three Black men by a mob near downtown Lawrence.
Pete Vinegar, Isaac King and George Robertson were lynched by a mob of white Lawrence residents at the Kansas River bridge near downtown Lawrence in the early hours of June 10, 1882. The Lawrence/Douglas County Community Remembrance Project Coalition, in partnership ...
Summer means road construction season in Lawrence, and several street and infrastructure projects are already underway or will be starting soon.
Large-scale projects on the schedule include work on East 23rd Street, 19th Street and storm drainage near Naismith Drive. Those projects are in addition to work done as part of the city’s annual street maintenance program, which includes curb and gutter maintenance ...
