Lawrence city commissioners will consider approving financial incentives for an affordable housing complex in East Lawrence that's being spearheaded by a longtime local developer.
Developer Tony Krsnich’s Flint Hills Holding Group sent in an application to the city for Industrial Revenue Bonds that would allow the development at 716 East Ninth St. — currently known as 9 Del Lofts II — to not pay sales tax ...
Although Haskell Indian Nations University students are celebrating a ruling that would reinstate dozens of employees who were abruptly fired last month, many of them say they're still feeling the fallout of the layoffs — and wary of what might happen next.
On Thursday morning, U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ordered the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the ...
The leader of a Lawrence food bank said the cancellation of two federal programs that allow the purchase of food from local farmers will be “detrimental” for local families in need.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday canceled a pair of programs — the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program and the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program — that gave schools and ...
Lawrence's Parks, Recreation and Culture department will have to scale back its programming if it doesn't raise its existing entry fees or implement new ones, the department's director warned the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board on Monday.
Director Luis Ruiz told the advisory board those conversations about adding fees would happen as part of ongoing city budget discussions. As the Journal-World reported, ...
A community group aiming to get historical preservation status for the Municipal Stadium in East Lawrence’s Hobbs Park, with the hopes of helping revitalize the structure and park, earned support from the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board on Monday night.
The board voted 5-0 to support the group, called The Municipal Stadium in Hobbs Park Legacy Project, in sending a proposal to get the Municipal Stadium ...
She said "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," but maybe Dorothy meant "we're not in California."
After all, no part of "The Wizard of Oz," that iconic film that so many from outside of the state associate with Kansas, was shot here. It was done on a soundstage in Culver City, California. And it's not alone.
Superman's adoptive Kansas hometown of Smallville in the 1978 Christopher Reeve film was ...
