Lawrence has received a $50,000 grant from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas to make improvements to its bus stops on the southern part of Massachusetts Street. The city announced the funding from the insurer's Pathways to a Healthy Kansas program early Friday afternoon. It didn't provide ...

Developers are seeking a sales tax exemption on construction materials to build a 341-unit apartment complex near KU Innovation Park, and city leaders are set to vote on that request next week. The apartment project would be in The Crossing @ KU section of the West Campus near 23rd and Iowa ...

Voters this fall won't just be asked whether to raise Lawrence's transit sales tax from 0.2% to 0.3%, but also whether to keep it in place through 2037. That's what city staff shared this week about what the sales tax ballot question will ask. As the Journal-World reported, the Lawrence City ...

“City Hall is on fire,” Amber Sellers told her fellow city commissioners on Tuesday night. There are three options for the 2027 budget, and you can only grab one. One of them has a roughly 2-mill property tax rate increase and funds a fire and medical staffing expansion and employee raises ...

Lawrence will be raising stormwater rates by 7.5% in each of the next three years, similar to what it’s already doing with water and sewer rates. At its meeting Tuesday night, the City Commission unanimously approved the three year-over-year rate increases for 2027, 2028 and 2029. Assistant ...

Lawrence's 2027 budget process is nearing the finish line, and on Tuesday the City Commission will hold its public hearings on the budget and consider an increase in stormwater rates for 2027, 2028 and 2029. As the Journal-World has reported, the city manager's proposed budget is just over ...