The number of injury crashes in Lawrence held steady last year, according to a newly released report, and the city hopes more road safety projects in the coming year will help drive injuries and fatal crashes down.
Earlier this month, the city shared its data on traffic crashes for 2025 for the local Vision Zero transportation plan. The plan has a goal of zero fatalities and serious injuries from transportation ...
Lawrence’s new airport manager doesn’t have an estimate for when the airport will resolve its issues with the Federal Aviation Administration, but he says that work is essential for the airport to grow into an “economic engine.”
At a meeting on Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission heard a briefing from Airport Manager Shaun Cookson about the state of Lawrence Regional Airport. Cookson touched on the ...
Majed Al-Ghafry thinks the city where he started his municipal government career – Chula Vista, California – has some lessons for Lawrence about growing smart.
Al-Ghafry has now been Lawrence’s city manager for almost a month, but back in the early ‘90s he was starting out as an engineer in that San Diego-area city, and it was in the middle of a growth spurt. In the mid-’80s, a builder had decided to ...
It sometimes takes Hibiki Miyazaki most of a year to make a print, but it’s taken a fraction of that time for Lawrence to make its imprint on her.
Miyazaki is one of the Lawrence Arts Center’s two new artists in residence. She grew up in a small town of about 300 people in western Massachusetts, and just before coming here, she was based in Portland, Oregon.
“This is kind of like the sweet spot in the ...
Early in the 2027 budget process, Lawrence’s employee healthcare plan got a worrying diagnosis – the fund used to pay out benefits wasn't sustainable.
City commissioners have known that for a while; in the city manager’s recommended budget that was released earlier this summer, about half of the $15 million in new spending on compensation and benefits would go toward shoring up the healthcare fund.
But ...
As the deadlines approach for Lawrence’s 2027 budget process, some city commissioners are still intent on getting to a smaller property tax rate increase, or even keeping the rate flat.
What they’re still trying to figure out is which specific cuts will get them there.
The city manager’s recommended budget, which was presented to the commission earlier this summer, includes a nearly 2-mill property tax ...
