If you’re catching a ride out of Lawrence’s Santa Fe train depot on the 5:09 a.m. train to Chicago, the odds are high that the doors to the station’s waiting area will be closed and locked.
Lately, it’s a more common sight to instead see people waiting on the platform, even more so when the one long-distance train running through town — the Southwest Chief — is behind schedule on its way from Los ...
After a marathon meeting on Monday night, the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission ultimately decided it needed more time before making a final decision about the revised regulations for wind energy projects in rural areas of Douglas County.
As the Journal-World has reported, the Planning Commission was hosting a public hearing to consider whether to recommend that the Douglas County Commission adopt the ...
The agenda for last week’s Lawrence City Commission meeting was updated after the meeting to include an email in which an appointee to the newly restructured Lawrence Community Shelter board of directors repeatedly refers to someone experiencing a behavioral health crisis as a “psycho.”
As the Journal-World reported, the City Commission last week appointed three members to the shelter’s board of ...
At Monday’s Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission meeting, members of the public filled not just every seat in the City Commission meeting room but the whole first floor lobby of Lawrence City Hall.
Those dozens of community members were all there to listen in as the Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on whether to recommend that the Douglas County Commission consider adopting a revised set ...
A Lawrence nonprofit’s project to bolster early-childhood education in Douglas County has received a substantial boost: a nearly $5 million grant from the Kansas Children’s Cabinet and Trust Fund.
The Community Children’s Center announced in a press release Monday that it has been awarded $4.9 million through KCCTF’s Capital Projects Fund Accelerator, a program that is intended to help construct spaces ...
Depending on how things shake out Monday, the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission could take the next significant step toward revising the regulations for developing wind energy projects in rural areas of Douglas County.
For more than a year, county planning staff and members of the Planning Commission have been working to update the rules — which have been on the books since 2016, according to a ...
