It's 5:45 a.m. at Lawrence's Solid Waste facility, and the noise would wake anyone up. “You haven’t seen all the people yet,” says Mike Lawless, deputy director of Lawrence’s Municipal Services and Operations, as dozens and dozens of workers in yellow gear chatter and get ready for ...

Days after a narrow City Commission vote on whether to claw back his affordable housing project's funding, developer Tony Krsnich is asking for an apology and for the chair of the city's Affordable Housing Advisory Board to resign. That's according to a formal complaint sent by Krsnich's ...

The City of Lawrence has hired a University of Kansas alumna as its new director of human resources, it announced on Friday. In a news release, the city said new HR Director Shakeva Christian has more than 30 years of HR experience and most recently served as deputy HR director for the Unified ...

The Lawrence City Commission could soon hear public comments near the start of its meeting agenda — but only from a limited number of speakers who have registered in advance. This period for “scheduled public comment,” as well as a “pledge of civility” that would be read before the ...

Two years after Lawrence streamlined its rules for building projects near historic properties, city leaders want to know how the changes are working – and what would happen if the rules went away. At their meeting on Tuesday, Lawrence city commissioners had a discussion with Brenna Buchanan ...

Instead of getting their city funding clawed back on Tuesday night, two affordable housing projects got another chance – but one of them will also have a deadline. At its meeting on Tuesday, the City Commission voted not to recoup about $46,000 in affordable housing trust funding from ...