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 ...
A strip of land near Oak Hill Cemetery and a traffic building that’s no longer needed – these city-owned sites could have a future as affordable housing, some of the city’s advisers think, and they’re in talks with city staff about a land donation.
At its meeting on Thursday, the Affordable Housing Advisory Board reviewed research by board members Monte Soukup and Barry McMurphy on parcels that the City ...
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 ...
A recently filed lawsuit is alleging that a University of Kansas fraternity with a history of hazing subjected one of its pledges in 2025 to “waterboarding torture techniques,” forced binge drinking, acts of violence, and harassment and intimidation even after he left the chapter.
The suit was filed in July in Douglas County District Court against the KU chapter of Delta Upsilon, the national fraternity ...
One city commissioner says the deficiencies in Lawrence’s 2025 audit are part of a pattern that goes back years. Others don’t think that’s the case.
But they do agree on one thing about the audit: It’s a chance to reflect on how the city could do better.
“Maybe there’s certain areas that we misstep in more than other areas,” Commissioner Kristine Polian said on Tuesday night, when the commission ...
Lawrence loves its local color, says artist Mary Walthall, and there’s one spot of color near the University of Kansas campus that’s all about love.
It’s the door of the “Love Garage” on the east side of Mississippi Street, near the stadium, which has gone through several changes through the years but has often sported bright red paint and “love” written in cursive.
It’s part graffiti tag, part ...
