Douglas County is planning a pilot program to repurpose some "tiny homes" near the city's homeless shelter as temporary housing for people with complex behavioral and medical needs following a health crisis.
The Monarch Village was previously designed during the COVID-19 pandemic to offer private, transitional housing for families and individuals. The 12 "tiny homes" are located behind the Lawrence Community ...
Lawrence school district officials told the school board Monday that the district has identified $73.9 million in deferred maintenance and facilities needs but lacks enough current funding to address them all.
“The issue is really the longer you delay repairing, the more costly it will be down the road,” Larry Englebrick, the district’s deputy superintendent, said.
The $73.9-million figure was ...
After nine months without a public comment period, the Lawrence school board will again allow community members to address board members at the end of their regular meetings.
After Bob Byers was appointed board president in July, he expressed an interest in bringing a public comment period back after the school board stopped including it on the agenda in December 2025, as the Journal-World reported. In the ...
To enhance the safety of city streets, the City of Lawrence is hoping to add speed cushions to three roads in northwestern Lawrence to reduce speeding.
During the Connected City Advisory Board meeting on Monday, city staff presented three different road segments where they hope to add speed cushions – raised areas of pavement designed to slow down traffic without hindering emergency vehicles or buses: ...
A city advisory board is backing a plan to close the Lawrence Loop’s downtown gap with a route along Seventh and New Hampshire streets, though it might change in the future depending on what happens to the Riverfront Mall property.
On Monday, the Connected City Advisory Board reviewed a draft report from Trekk Design Group on how to close the downtown segment of the approximately 22-mile Lawrence Loop. The ...
The Lawrence school district’s four-year, on-time graduation rate has improved to 88.7% in 2025, however, there are disparities among many student groups the district hopes to focus on moving forward.
The graduation rate is the percentage of students who earn a high school diploma within four years of starting ninth grade. The district’s rate has improved by 1.4 percentage points from 2024, and has ...
