LMH Health’s supplier for blood donations recently reported that the greater Kansas City area it serves continues to experience a chronic blood shortage, but folks in Lawrence will have a pair of opportunities to help in just a few days.
LMH Health is hosting mobile drives for the Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City Thursday and Friday. The Thursday drive will take place at the hospital’s West ...
There are three seats up for grabs on the Lawrence City Commission this year, but the field of eight candidates will first have to be narrowed in the upcoming Aug. 1 primary election.
The terms of Lawrence city commissioners Courtney Shipley, Amber Sellers and Brad Finkeldei are expiring this year. The primary election was triggered by a Lawrence charter ordinance that calls for a primary if the number of ...
Story updated at 4:53 p.m. Friday, July 7:
Lawrence city commissioners next week will begin considering a $471 million budget for 2024 that would add a Homeless Programs Department and provide about $7.5 million in additional wages and benefits to city employees.
It also would keep the city’s property tax rate steady from a year ago, but many residents should expect their property tax bills to increase due ...
When arts-based social service nonprofit Van Go unveils the custom benches created by its apprentice artists as part of its “Benchmark” program each summer, it typically doesn’t have any trouble drawing a crowd. But few of those folks are lucky enough to get a peek behind the curtain to see the weeks of work it's taken to get to that point.
Year after year, youths ages 14 to 18 who are employed through ...
Lawrence Transit on Thursday announced that its two major public transit improvements planned for August — the opening of the city’s new multimillion-dollar bus station and the subsequent introduction of redesigned routes that better align with the new facility — have been delayed until early next year.
The “multimodal transit transfer facility” located at the corner of Bob Billings Parkway and ...
A city-appointed group that is tasked with recommending possible changes related to police oversight in Lawrence — including how complaints against the department are handled — is hosting a pair of community conversations this month.
The City of Lawrence’s Community Police Oversight work group will host a forum on Monday and a follow-up forum on July 31.
The city announced the two sessions in a press ...
