The U.S. Department of Energy is in the midst of a cross-country tour of tribal colleges and universities, and this week it stopped in Lawrence to share resources with Haskell Indian Nations University students and help connect them to clean energy jobs, training and research.
Leaders with the DOE’s Office of Indian Energy were on the Haskell campus on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the Journal-World spoke with ...
The City of Lawrence’s new department dedicated to homeless programs is officially operational, and the city anticipates that a spare set of 45 Pallet cabins will be installed near the Lawrence Community Shelter by this summer.
Those were a couple of new details that one city leader, Misty Bosch-Hastings, shared in a presentation to the Kansas House Committee on Welfare Reform Tuesday afternoon in Topeka. ...
Lawrence leaders on Tuesday started the process of granting development incentives for a project seeking to convert the historic Turnhalle building into an event space and restaurant.
At Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, commissioners voted 4-0 to preliminarily approve three types of development incentives for the project involving the stone structure at 900 Rhode Island St. near downtown Lawrence, ...
The fate of a sprawling development project along the South Lawrence Trafficway could soon lie, in part, with the federal government after city leaders approved an amendment to the city and Douglas County’s joint comprehensive plan on Tuesday.
At Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, city leaders voted 4-1, with Commissioner Lisa Larsen opposed, to approve an amendment to Plan 2040 revising its land ...
At this week’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, city leaders will consider making a pair of preliminary decisions on an amendment to Lawrence and Douglas County’s joint comprehensive plan and a set of development incentives for a project involving one of the oldest buildings in town.
The amendment to Plan 2040 relates to a major development along the South Lawrence Trafficway — the New Boston Crossing ...
A grant concept to fund one of the few remaining incomplete sections of the Lawrence Loop has earned narrow approval from Lawrence’s Multi-modal Transportation Commission.
At its meeting Monday night, the commission voted 3-2 to approve the proposal, which would cover the construction of a section of the Lawrence Loop Trail from Seventh Street to Constant Park near downtown Lawrence, as well as an entirely ...
