If Lawrence wants to add hundreds of housing units a year, as its affordable housing study says is necessary, it’s going to need some new tactics.
The housing study, as the Journal-World has reported, was recently completed by consulting firm Development Strategies using a COVID-related grant. Among other things, it found that Lawrence had a severe shortage of housing of all types, and a demand for more than ...
A man accused of hitting a woman, pulling her hair and chasing her with a baseball bat earlier this year at and outside the Lawrence Public Library was ordered on Friday to stand trial on a charge of aggravated assault.
At a preliminary hearing, Judge Stacey Donovan found that the state had produced sufficient evidence to bind Brandon Eugene Snow over for trial. Snow, 35, is a homeless man, and the case he's ...
City leaders next week will consider authorizing a nearly $1 million contract for the final design of northwest Lawrence's new fire station.
At its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission is set to vote on the $951,502 agreement with SFS Architecture Inc. for the final design of Fire Station 6. SFS was previously selected for the preliminary design process of the station, and in March 2025, the City ...
He went ax-throwing and learned some homestyle cooking, got to meet the governor and a slobbery family dog, all in one whirlwind week in Kansas.
But one of the best memories of the trip for Yoshifumi Ishikawa is among the very first:
“I went to the Freddy’s burgers,” he said.
That’s right, it was his host family taking him to Freddy’s Frozen Custard. His host mom, Sandy Warner, says it was love at ...
At Tuesday’s Lawrence Opera Theatre rehearsal, Colin Bradt belts it out like only a classically trained tenor can.
“Shoot for the moon, and we’ll go so far!”
The show, “Brewed Ambition,” is about a coffee shop busboy who aspires to be the cafe’s top dog, but the lyrics seem just as fitting for the local opera company itself, which is one of two contenders for a nationwide performing arts ...
Riders generally “feel safe in most places” on Lawrence Transit's bus routes, a new survey shows, “except for one” — the stop across from the Lawrence Public Library on Vermont Street.
That's from a report the City of Lawrence shared this month on the transit survey, which got 222 responses, of which about 85% were from people who ride the bus at least a few times a month. Many told the transit system ...
