Starting on Monday, people looking to secure a business license or building permit in Lawrence will have access to a much more streamlined new application system.
The City of Lawrence’s new permitting and licensing system goes live Feb. 5, and it will replace the city’s current licensing and permitting processes with a more centralized platform that's available online, 24 hours a day.
It’s a new system ...
A group of downtown Lawrence business owners has formed a nonprofit focused on addressing homeless issues, through strategies such as supporting a centralized navigation center for people to access social service agencies and evaluating options to return unhoused people who aren’t originally from Douglas County to their home communities.
According to an email message sent earlier this week to people who have ...
When The Village welcomes its first residents, leaders with the City of Lawrence and the Lawrence Community Shelter want to make it clear that it’s not the ultimate solution to homelessness but rather a stepping stone on the path to stable housing.
That was more than just a metaphor Friday afternoon, when the city and LCS partnered to welcome elected officials, city and LCS staff and community members to 256 ...
The majority of rezoning requests for a massive development project along the South Lawrence Trafficway have failed to earn a key recommendation from the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission, setting the stage for a much more difficult path to final approval.
Six of the eight plots that were up for rezoning consideration at the request of the Wichita-based development group behind the New Boston Crossing ...
Though LMH Health officially posted an operating loss north of $5 million in 2023, the hospital’s leader thinks there are some strategies to avoid a similar outcome by this time next year.
At Wednesday’s LMH Health Board of Trustees meeting, LMH Health President and CEO Russ Johnson informed board members that the hospital’s final operating loss for 2023 was $5.6 million, similar to the hospital’s ...
While it's still unclear whether a report on extensive crimes alleged to have taken place at Haskell Indian Nations University actually exists, a nonprofit is now saying that letters from the top official at the federal agency that oversees the university seem to confirm its existence.
The Journal-World has obtained the two letters, sent by Bureau of Indian Education Director Tony Dearman in January 2023. The ...
