Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday voted to approve a variety of financial incentives that would allow the $300 million second phase of the University of Kansas' Gateway project to begin at 11th and Mississippi streets on the northern edge of campus.
The commissioners voted to approve five items that will provide KU a major package of financial incentives worth around $94.6 million for the second phase of ...
Updated at 12:10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11
A Douglas County judge on Monday cut in half the $1.5 million bond of a speech pathologist accused of molesting multiple children last winter at a Lawrence Elementary School.
The bond is now $750,000 cash or surety for defendant Mark Gridley, 61, who will also be required to have GPS monitoring but will not be under house arrest. Gridley is also excluded from all school ...
Decluttering, with its talk of "sparking joy" and making life simpler, may sound innocent, but Erin Schmidt knows that it has a hidden dark side.
Schmidt is the owner of Douglas County-based decluttering business Home Liberated LLC. She says many people don't know that when they get rid of their old junk — even if they try to do it responsibly by donating it to a thrift store — it still may one day end up ...
Tuesday is set to be decision day for what leaders are calling Lawrence’s largest development project in modern history — the approximately $750 million Gateway district around the University of Kansas’ football stadium.
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday will consider a variety of financial incentives that would allow the $300 million second phase of the Gateway project to begin at 11th and ...
After a day and a half of deliberations, a jury found a KU student not guilty of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy on Friday in Douglas County District Court.
The trial for Calistus Chukwuma Ezenwa began on Monday, and included testimony from the woman who accused Ezenwa of assaulting her on Nov. 21, 2024. During closing arguments on Thursday, the attorneys didn't dispute that something happened that night ...
The Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday night approved a traffic calming project in the Sunset Hill neighborhood that will add speed cushions along a major collector street.
The project calls for adding five speed cushions along Crestline Drive between Ninth Street and Bob Billings Parkway to address concerns about speeding and cut-through traffic along that route.
The project was chosen from among 16 ...
