When a small community in Kansas has a homelessness problem, what's stopping it from just dropping people off on the streets of a bigger city like Lawrence?
Last year, the deterrent might have been some “colorful language.”
According to Lawrence Police Chief Rich Lockhart, that's what the Anderson County Sheriff's Department got after it dropped a homeless woman off here. She was arrested after reports ...
After they rejected a consultant's recommendation to purchase a vacant building for a new City Hall, Lawrence city commissioners will be considering a new contract with the same firm to reassess the project and evaluate as many as two alternative sites.
On Tuesday, the commission will vote on a $63,500 agreement with Multistudio to “reset the project” of reconfiguring City Hall. As the Journal-World has ...
Some City of Lawrence utility customers who have fallen behind on their payments will soon be able to set up payment plans to help pay those amounts down, the city announced on Thursday.
“We’re excited to open up payment arrangements to our customers who have been advocating for this process, especially for our community members who might be experiencing hardship during this holiday season and beyond,” ...
Explore Lawrence plans to debut a new mobile visitor center to promote tourism to Lawrence and Douglas County.
Allison Calvin, the director of marketing and communications for Explore Lawrence, told the Journal-World the goal is to “meet visitors where they are at.”
Explore Lawrence plans to use the mobile center at local events and also at target markets across the Midwest to help encourage more tourism ...
State officials shared more details on Wednesday about a passenger rail project that would connect Newton and other cities in Kansas to destinations in Oklahoma and Texas by 2029.
The Kansas Department of Transportation held a virtual meeting on Wednesday on the proposal to extend Amtrak’s Heartland Flyer line — which currently runs between Fort Worth and Oklahoma City — to the north along the I-35 ...
Over the span of his career, Mike Dever has found a way to be close to the ideas of city planning.
Dever, who earned a degree from the University of Kansas in environmental studies and geography, has spent his almost 40-year career looking at topics like land use as an environmental and building consultant.
Although his career took him away from Lawrence for a few years, he came back to the city in 1998 and ...
