Lawrence City Commission candidates discussed how they would approach creating more affordable housing in the city and shared their thoughts on how Lawrence should respond to federal threats that seem to target diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
The four candidates — Michael Courtney, Bart Littlejohn, Kristine Polian and Bob Schumm — spoke during a forum Saturday morning at the Lawrence Public ...
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday will consider approving a more than $50 million contract to fund the second phase of construction for the city’s new $130 million Municipal Services and Operations campus.
Commissioners will consider awarding a contract to the construction firm McCownGordon for just over $57 million of work on the second phase of the MSO campus. The first phase of construction on the ...
The Lawrence Bicycle Club has hosted three annual long bike rides on the paths of rural northeast Kansas, including the Octoginta that dates back nearly 60 years.
While that road race will be held Sunday, Marty Dubois, a board member for LBC and event organizer, said that this year the club is doing something different.
“We wanted to make a weekend out of it,” Dubois said.
So for the first time ever, the ...
Even as life took him away from Lawrence, Jake Moffitt always had an aim for what his life would look like when he came back.
“I always had a dream to move back and open a restaurant, but it wasn't clear what it was,” Moffitt said.
Moffitt went to college at KU and met his wife, Elizabeth, there, but they then moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2015 so she could attend graduate school. Moffitt worked as a ...
A man who crashed a motorcycle while fleeing from police, seriously injuring his female passenger, was sentenced Friday to 21 months in prison.
Dillon Paul Herken, of Easton, pleaded no contest to one count of aggravated battery in September as part of a deal in which four other charges were dropped.
The high-speed crash occurred on Feb. 27 in North Lawrence as Herken fled from a Kansas Highway Patrol ...
One thing Lawrence City Manager Craig Owens wrote down in his notes several years ago, during his first 100 days on the job, was that the city's "infrastructure needs a lot of love."
He told the Lawrence City Commission that on Tuesday night before city staff and financial advisers from Baker Tilly gave an overview of how the city decides which parts of its infrastructure need that love — and how the debt ...
