Another building option could be opened up to hundreds of homeowners in eastern Lawrence, but some residents in those neighborhoods say the new option could be detrimental. As part of its meeting Wednesday, the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission initiated a code change ...
City leaders are generally supportive of the Lawrence Police Department’s draft policy for body cameras, which includes details on how the cameras and the footage they record will be used and handled. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission received a presentation from ...
Lawrence's mayor made an emotional public statement following the politically motivated vandalism of her home last week. At the opening of the Lawrence City Commission’s meeting Tuesday, Mayor Jennifer Ananda read both a personal and a city statement related to the incident. In the city ...
Following a request from an area union, city leaders will soon consider potential changes to the city’s resolution governing employee unions. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will receive a staff report on Resolution No. 6817 and consider whether the resolution ...
City leaders will soon review the Lawrence Police Department’s draft policy for body cameras, which includes details on how the cameras and the footage they record will be used and handled. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will receive a presentation from the ...
In the midst of an at times tense discussion about the treatment of homeless people and funding for the local shelter at City Hall, someone threw a rock through a window of the mayor’s house. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission heard more than an hour of public ...
The City of Lawrence and Douglas County are hosting an informational meeting later this month about the upcoming 2020 census and the importance of getting an accurate population count. Local census experts will be on hand at the public meeting, scheduled for Jan. 28 at the Lawrence Public ...
The police officer who shot a Lawrence driver after a 2018 traffic stop turned violent cannot be found. The driver, Akira Lewis, filed an excessive-force lawsuit in September against the former officer Brindley Blood, as well as the City of Lawrence, the other officer involved in the traffic ...
After hearing several comments from people who are currently or were recently homeless, city leaders voted unanimously on Tuesday to provide $31,000 of the city’s surplus sales tax proceeds to the Lawrence Community Shelter. The funding will temporarily allow the shelter to increase its ...
Consultants creating the new Downtown Master Plan say one of the key goals of the plan is to strengthen downtown as a destination, not only for Lawrence residents but for the entire region. The city hired consulting firm Houseal Lavigne Associates to complete the plan, and the firm presented ...
City leaders will consider providing $31,000 of the city’s surplus sales tax proceeds to the local homeless shelter. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider the Lawrence Community Shelter’s $31,000 supplementary funding request, which would temporarily ...
A local church has donated $10,000 to the city to help fund construction of bus benches and shelters throughout the community. As part of its meeting Jan. 7, the Lawrence City Commission accepted the $10,000 donation from Velocity Church, which has services at the Lawrence Arts Center and ...
Within the next 20 years in downtown Lawrence, residents might not shop at a row of retail stores — instead, they might go "play with gadgets, meet with personal stylists" and visit a variety of "experience-based businesses" that offer unique services that you can't buy online. That's the ...
Updated at 4:50 p.m. Thursday Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel pleaded guilty Thursday in a federal fraud case. Fritzel pleaded guilty to one count of criminal conspiracy, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Kansas. Fritzel admitted that he and others submitted ...
City of Lawrence leaders will soon consider providing some of the city’s surplus sales tax proceeds to the local homeless shelter. Lawrence received about $400,000 more in sales and use tax collections in 2019 than it had budgeted for. During the City Commission’s meeting Tuesday, ...
With the help of Lawrence Mayor Jennifer Ananda, faculty members of Billy Mills Middle School prepared for the spring semester by reminding themselves why they teach. Ananda, who served as a guest speaker for the teachers’ first day back to school on Monday, set an example for them by ...
City leaders will consider adding five issues to their list of legislative priorities, including support for a measure that would effectively freeze property tax rates for low-income seniors and a measure that would provide rebates for sales tax charged on groceries to low-income residents. ...
If the market for recycled materials remains low, the city's costs for processing recyclables could go up — and so could residents' utility bills. The City of Lawrence contracts with the Hamm recycling facility to process recyclable materials, but changes in global markets have led to a ...
With its gleaming copper-plated addition and the bright red garage doors, the renovated Fire Station No. 1 stands out. The $7.14 million renovation project is nearing completion, with only a few final items, and Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical personnel moved back into the station ...
Local anti-tobacco advocates say recently approved federal legislation raising the age to buy tobacco products is a critical step, but more can be done locally to discourage youth use. As part of its federal spending package, Congress recently approved regulations increasing the federal age ...