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 ...
At a brief meeting about Douglas County’s 2025 audit results on Wednesday, county leaders signaled that a review of some financial policies might be coming soon.
“Now that we’ve gotten two major projects for the year, budget and audit, out of the way, we can return our attention to policy,” said County Administrator Sarah Plinsky, in response to a question from County Commissioner Karen Willey about ...
One of the largest annexation requests in recent memory in Lawrence won approval from the City Commission on Tuesday night.
Commissioners voted 5-0 to approve the annexation request and an amendment to the comprehensive plan for land use for roughly 288 acres southwest of Sixth Street and K-10. They also voted to approve a series of rezonings for that land, but not all of those approvals were unanimous. ...
There’s a block party planned on Ninth Street later this month, as the stormwater construction winds down and more of the street opens back up.
But for Rob Coleman, there’s not much left to celebrate.
City staff came to his restaurant, Fork & Tumbler, last October, talked him and other local business owners through what was going to happen and why. They said they needed to close down the street to ...
Lawrence leaders next week could take a step toward a major commercial and residential development west of the South Lawrence Trafficway by annexing almost 300 acres into the city limits.
At its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider a comprehensive plan amendment, an annexation request and several related rezoning requests for roughly 288 acres southwest of Sixth Street and Kansas Highway ...
Just a few years ago, it looked like Lawrence’s historic Castle Tea Room’s time as a gathering place might have been over.
Attempts to run an event business at the 19th-century home at 13th and Mass. – which really does look like a castle – simply hadn’t made enough money to cover the building’s upkeep. A custodian appointed in 2019 to help it out of financial distress thought that office space ...
