Story updated at 4:10 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31:
As 2026 rolls in, the city's annual distributions to its economic development partners are rolling out — but they're smaller than last year's because of budget cuts.
In December, the Lawrence City Commission approved the funding agreements with its six economic development partners: the Lawrence Chamber, KU Innovation Park, Peaslee Tech, Douglas County CORE, the ...
When Mayor Brad Finkeldei looks at Lawrence these days, he sees all kinds of growth – growth that has been a long time coming.
He sees the University of Kansas partnering with the city on two big projects at once, The Crossing on West Campus and the Gateway project around the stadium. He sees long-vacant parts of downtown drawing new interest from developers. And of course, on the west side, he sees Costco ...
On Tuesday, Lawrence city commissioners will consider two big items related to stormwater improvements near downtown: one involving the calendar, and another involving a crack.
The one involving the calendar is a recommendation from city staff about the Ninth Street reconstruction project’s timeline. Staff is going to recommend a schedule that would not reopen the street partway through its reconstruction for ...
City commissioners will take a first step toward replacing outgoing City Manager Craig Owens when they receive three proposals from executive search firms at their meeting next week.
Owens announced last month that he would be leaving his role in May 2026, and city staff has received proposals from three search firms to look for his replacement: Strategic Government Resources, MGT and CPS HR Consulting.
The ...
It was called a debate, but there were no panelists or winners or losers – just a big circle of citizens at the school district offices, taking turns with the mic and answering this question:
Is Lawrence doing enough to be a place where there is housing for all?
For Trina Tinsley, the answer was personal: “For my family, they have been.”
Tinsley was the first speaker to give her view at Thursday’s ...
Even if your family watches the Bing Crosby classic “White Christmas” every year, the stage version, opening Friday at Theatre Lawrence, might still have something new for you to unwrap.
One of its gifts to director Joshua Shockey was a classic song he’d never heard before – one from the late ‘40s or early ‘50s called “Falling Out of Love Can Be Fun.”
“It’s almost like an Andrews ...
