The Community Building, which is currently the City of Lawrence's only free recreation center, has seen more than twice as many visits in the first two months of 2026 as in the same time period in 2025.
That's according to statistics from Parks, Recreation and Culture staff that the Lawrence City Commission is slated to discuss next week. The commission will hear a presentation about how the Community ...
“Currently, there is not a laid-out strategy that the city has adopted to reach those next goals.”
Those words were spoken by the city-county sustainability director back in 2019 about Lawrence’s plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But they might as well have been said by the Environmental Sustainability Advisory Board just this week in its discussion of what to do with the city’s clean energy ...
After Lawrence fell far short of a clean energy target it set for 2025, city staff wanted to repeal the ordinance that set the target. But now, a city adviser wants to not only keep that ordinance, but give it more teeth.
The ordinance is known as Ordinance 9744, and it was passed by the City Commission in 2020. It set goals of powering all city facilities with renewable energy by 2025, and of transitioning to ...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup may be one of the biggest events the Kansas City area has ever seen, but it will take a lot of little details to pull it off successfully.
For Scott Fewins, general manager of field operations for Lawrence’s Municipal Services and Operations department, that means fixing sidewalks, painting parking lots, and a whole lot of cleanup.
All of that contributes to “what is people’s ...
More than $74 million in improvements to reduce the Kansas River wastewater treatment plant’s impact on the environment are almost complete, city staff said this week.
At the Connected City Advisory Board’s meeting on Monday, Trevor Flynn, assistant director of Municipal Services and Operations, said the project had reached its “date of significant completion” this week. From here, it’s a matter of ...
Living outside in an unsanctioned homeless camp, Misty Bosch-Hastings says, is “horrific.”
In two years as director of Lawrence’s Homeless Solutions Division, she’s seen enough human trafficking, violence, substance abuse and death in encampments to know that.
“It’s horrific. It’s horrific,” she repeats. “It’s not just a good old time, you know, all just hanging out, just loving each ...
