Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed a $1 million allocation for a Lawrence-based children’s center, which the center's executive director said would have been used to "fill a gap" in the system for youth in foster care.
But, as the Legislature attempts to override the governor's dozens of line-item vetoes, there's the possibility that the funding could still be coming.
O’Connell Children’s Shelter, at 1925 ...
Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bill on Wednesday that will require the Lawrence City Commission to change the way it handles public comments in its live streams of meetings.
The new law updates the Kansas Open Records Act and Kansas Open Meetings Act, and a provision in it says that any governing body or agency that “elects to live stream their meeting on television, the internet or any other medium shall ensure ...
Lawrence city commissioners approved a request on Tuesday to add a Lawrence church to the local register of historic places, after a discussion about how a building's historic status can affect nearby development.
The commission voted unanimously to approve the nomination for the First Presbyterian Church building, 2415 Clinton Parkway, to the local list of historic places. The city’s Historic Resources ...
City Commissioners will once again consider a request from a local church to be added onto the Lawrence Register of Historic Places.
The commission will vote on approving the nomination for the First Presbyterian Church, located at 2415 Clinton Parkway, but this time only a portion of the church’s structure was nominated. The Historic Resources Commission voted in December to recommend approving the church to ...
A simple two-word question — "what if?" — and the limitless imagination of children is what sparked a two-year-long process that led to a formerly homeless person being housed.
Madeline Herrera, the co-founder and director at Limestone Community School in Lawrence, said that as students began returning to class in January 2023 after winter break, she was working to figure out what the class’s next big ...
When Charlie Johnson got a call during one of his virtual classes at the University of Kansas in March, he let it go to voicemail since he didn’t recognize the number.
Johnson, a senior from Lawrence who went to Free State High School, soon saw on the auto-transcription of the voicemail that it was “so and so from Carnegie calling."
“I started freaking out,” Johnson said.
Johnson, who is majoring in ...
