City commissioners at their meeting on Tuesday could take a step forward on nearly $184 million in debt to fund a variety of projects, including stormwater improvements and the Municipal Services and Operations campus. The commission is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a resolution to offer the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Construction crews near the intersection of Eighth and Vermont streets are preparing to install a new metal bus shelter there, the city said Wednesday. In a social media post, the city said the bus stop at the northeast corner of Eighth and Vermont was being upgraded to include a “more ...

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 ...

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 ...