The Lawrence City Commission will be asked to choose a concept next week for a major renovation of the Outdoor Aquatic Center, which would cost at least $6.1 million and add a lazy river and other new water features.
As the Journal-World has reported, the city is planning to remove much of the current pool area of the center, at 727 Kentucky St., and replace it with a lazy river, splash pad and shallow pool. ...
A former deputy district attorney in Douglas County who is facing a state ethics complaint is back as a nominee for a city board that reviews police conduct complaints — one week after his name was removed from that list.
On Thursday afternoon, attorney Joshua Seiden was once again listed as one of three people the City Commission was set to consider appointing to the Community Police Review Board, according ...
The 2024 point-in-time homeless count for Lawrence and Douglas County, which was completed earlier this year, is up 18% from last year, according to results that were shared with the Journal-World on Wednesday.
The point-in-time count is conducted each year by state agencies as mandated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and it’s intended to give a picture of how many sheltered and ...
The Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday approved more than half a million dollars worth of sidewalk improvement projects at eight locations around the city.
Commissioners voted 4-0, with Commissioner Brad Finkledei absent, to award a $562,265 bid to Sands Construction LLC as part of the 2023 Pedestrian Improvements Project.
The project will construct new sidewalks on Wisconsin Street from Fifth Street to ...
A former deputy district attorney in Douglas County facing a state ethics complaint told the Lawrence City Commission Tuesday that he believed he was the right person to get the Community Police Review Board "off the ground," despite his name having been recently removed from the board nomination list.
Joshua Seiden, who abruptly departed the Douglas County District Attorney's Office in June after he was caught ...
In a couple of years, a major street in Lawrence could have a major facelift.
The Multi-Modal Transportation Commission unanimously voted on Monday to recommend a plan to redesign Ninth Street from Illinois Street to Vermont Street. The plan would drop Ninth Street's traffic flow from four lanes of cars to three lanes and add bike lanes on each side until Kentucky Street.
The design would have one lane of ...
