Updated at 3:28 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7
A nonprofit that earlier this year filed a lawsuit against the federal agency overseeing Haskell Indian Nations University to obtain an investigative report of alleged crimes that took place on campus has finally received documents.
However, the agency says the more than 500 pages of material provided to it by the Bureau of Indian Education last week are not what it had ...
There’s still a long list of questions about how exactly the City of Lawrence’s Pallet Shelter Village might work when it’s finally operational.
Some of the answers might be found a four-hour drive away in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Fayetteville is the closest city to Lawrence that’s operating a community of Pallet structures — rapid-response shelters described as “sleeping cabins” by the ...
When the Journal-World visited New Beginnings NWA in Fayetteville, Arkansas, it was clear that residents had a positive view of the bridge housing community.
Mark Webster, 50, was one of those residents, and a new one at that. When he spoke to the Journal-World Thursday, he’d been living in a Pallet cabin for about a month. But it didn’t take long for him to appreciate the community after having spent more ...
The City of Lawrence is officially seeking proposals to redevelop three parking lots in the downtown area.
On Friday, the city announced that it has published a request for information for proposals to redevelop one or more of the lots at 711 New Hampshire St., 826 Vermont St. and 1010 Vermont St. According to the release, proposals must be for mixed-use projects and may include plans for either a single ...
The City of Lawrence says it’s “at an impasse” in contract negotiations with a group of unionized city employees and will have to find a resolution through the Lawrence City Commission.
The city announced in a news release Thursday that a bargaining unit including central maintenance, engineering, technician, building maintenance and parks field employees had reached the end of their contract negotiation ...
The Douglas County Elections Office has released the final campaign finance reports for Lawrence City Commission candidates ahead of election day on Tuesday.
As the Journal-World reported, when similar reports detailing candidates’ fundraising receipts and expenditures ahead of the August primary election were released in late July, it was former commissioner Mike Dever who led the way with nearly $30,000 in ...
