City leaders will soon review a plan that could reduce the number of lanes for cars and add new lanes for bikes on a portion of Ninth Street between downtown Lawrence and the University of Kansas.
On Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will provide its input on a proposed redesign of Ninth Street from Illinois Street to Vermont Street. Currently the street has four lanes of motor vehicle traffic, two in each ...
Community members shared their input on possible changes to downtown Lawrence's tiny Robinson Park — including changing its name or adding an Indigenous monument — at an open house hosted by the Sacred Red Rock Project on Thursday.
The group wants public feedback on what the park's future should be now that the prayer rock that once stood there, Iⁿ’zhúje’waxóbe, has been returned to the Kaw Nation. ...
More than a year after the prayer rock that stood in Robinson Park was returned to the Kaw Nation, the team behind that effort will be hosting an open house on Thursday to discuss some ideas for the future of the little park downtown.
The focal point of the park, which lies across the street from City Hall, previously was the 28-ton red quartzite boulder called Iⁿ’zhúje’waxóbe (pronounced “EE(n) ...
A proposal to convert a former rural schoolhouse between Lawrence and Eudora into a day care home for adults with developmental disabilities is closer to fruition after the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission gave it a key approval on Monday.
The commission unanimously voted on Monday night to approve a conditional use permit for the project and forward it to the Douglas County Commission for a final ...
City of Lawrence administrators and the local firefighters union have come to a new working agreement, resolving a previous impasse in negotiations.
The city and the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1596, which represents firefighters and other emergency personnel employed by Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical, ratified a new Memorandum of Understanding, the two groups announced in a release ...
Arborists in Lawrence managing the infestation from an invasive beetle called emerald ash borers that are affecting ash trees say the period of damage is at a peak, with the city needing to remove about 150 of those trees per year.
Emerald ash borers are an invasive beetle that is originally from eastern Russia and Northeastern Asia. These bugs were first discovered in North America in Michigan and Ontario in ...
