When you turn on your tap for water in Lawrence, you expect water to come out.
That’s the biggest focus for Steven Craig, a water treatment division manager with the City of Lawrence’s Municipal Services and Operations department, and the others who work at the Clinton Lake Water Treatment Plant every day. The plant, at 2101 Wakarusa Drive, can process up to 25 million gallons of water each day, ensuring it ...
While sentencing a teen to 10 years in prison on Friday for murdering a 17-year-old boy last summer, Judge Stacey Donovan took a moment to note how many people in the courtroom had tears in their eyes.
"It's a horrible day for everyone," Donovan told the assembled friends and loved ones of both teens: 19-year-old Cir Allen Keith Glover and 17-year-old Isaiah Neal.
Glover, who will turn 20 on Saturday, pleaded ...
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday will vote on the city's final 2026 budget — and on whether to raise the property tax rate to reduce the impact of cuts to public safety, parks and recreation and other areas.
As the Journal-World has reported, discussions about the budget have gone on since January, in part because of a need to close a $6.5 million budget hole. Now, the commission will have three main ...
Lawrence commissioners approved an incentive package that will allow for the development of the historic Reuter building in downtown Lawrence, saying they hope it can revitalize a long vacant building.
The commissioners voted 4-0 on numerous items Tuesday night that give developers incentives to redevelop the Reuter Organ building, 612 New Hampshire St., and its adjacent property at 614-616 New Hampshire St. in ...
Leaders with the nonprofit that helps staff the state’s suicide prevention crisis line told supporters at its Breakfast of Hope event Monday that it is starting to stabilize and grow after a tumultuous year.
Walter Way, HeadQuarters Kansas’ former interim director, addressed several dozen Lawrence residents and leaders Monday morning to share updates from the nonprofit, which answers calls that come from ...
When Kim Andrews was in high school, she learned for the first time about a literally explosive family story — one that she has been working to tell, on and off, for the past 30 years.
Andrews, on a trip with her father to Topeka, met with a cousin who took them up to a farm site on Perry Lake in Jefferson County. Once there, she learned about three deaths that occurred on her great-grandfather’s farm in ...
