Story updated at 7:50 p.m. Saturday, April 13:
The 1,105-acre Kansas Sky Energy Center solar project no longer has much standing in the way of its construction on agricultural land in Grant Township after earning unanimous approval from the Douglas County Commission on Saturday evening.
Commissioners have approved a conditional use permit for the first industrial-scale solar energy project in Douglas County, ...
Douglas County leaders are set to take a key vote Saturday that will decide the fate of what could become the first utility-scale solar energy facility in the county.
At a special business meeting Saturday, the Douglas County Commission will consider a conditional use permit for the Kansas Sky Energy Center, which is proposed for 1,105 acres just north of Lawrence and west of Lawrence Regional Airport.
As a ...
The final day that camping will be allowed in Lawrence’s downtown area and along the Kansas River levee trail is approaching, but questions remain about how that ban might actually be enforced.
As the Journal-World has reported, the city in March announced plans to stop allowing camping in Lawrence’s Central Business District — which encompasses the downtown area surrounding Massachusetts Street, along ...
A 30-day public comment period is now open for a proposed reallocation of $100,000 in pandemic relief funds toward a housing study examining the effects of COVID-19 on the City of Lawrence’s housing market.
At Monday’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board meeting, the group heard more about a proposed amendment to the city’s 2019 Community Development Block Grant/HOME Annual Action Plan from Brad Karr, a ...
After hearing from neighbors concerned about traffic cutting through their subdivision, Lawrence city leaders have rejected an apartment complex's request to open a currently closed entrance on its property.
At its meeting on Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-0, with Commissioner Amber Sellers absent, against the request to remove a gate that currently blocks one of the entrances to Alvadora ...
LMH Health's search for a new top financial leader is over, and a longtime Lawrence leader has been hired for the role, the hospital announced in a news release Monday morning.
LMH Health has hired former Lawrence City Commissioner Rob Chestnut to fill its CFO role. Chestnut will join the organization May 20.
In addition to his time as a city commissioner from 2007 to 2011, Chestnut also spent 12 years ...
