A judge has denied a request by the City of Lawrence to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a longtime pilot claiming the city hasn’t properly kept up some airport infrastructure. Great Planes Inc., which operates an airplane hangar and offices at the airport on space leased from the city, filed the ...
The City of Lawrence is seeking public input on a proposal to ban or charge a fee for single-use plastic and paper bags. The Lawrence Sustainability Advisory Board previously recommended that the city charge a 16-cent fee for disposable plastic and paper bags, but it has since updated that ...
The Lawrence Public Library wants to join a growing list of libraries that have eliminated fines for overdue books and other media. Library staff recommended this week that the library eliminate overdue fines and charge people only for lost or damaged items. Staff presented the recommendation ...
City leaders have deferred their decision on the design of the easternmost section of 19th Street, asking staff to bring back an option with a narrower roadway. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to defer its choice of a concept design for the ...
Monday's canvass of the 2019 general election results confirmed the winners for the Lawrence City Commission and Lawrence school board races. The Douglas County Clerk’s Office released the official results of the Nov. 5 election after the County Commission certified the results. The ...
City leaders will soon decide on the design of the easternmost section of 19th Street, which has generated concerns from neighbors. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider approving a concept design for the project to extend the roadway and reconstruct a ...
If the Lawrence City Commission is trying to send a message about the legalization of marijuana to the Kansas Legislature, it has fallen on deaf ears. “It’s a message that nobody is hearing,” state Rep. John Barker, R-Abilene, told the Journal-World recently. Three Republican state ...
For Lawrence resident Laura Green, years of advocacy for progressive marijuana laws began with one event. “I originally became aware of the harm that was being done to people through a family member who got cancer in the '80s and was recommended to use marijuana, but then didn’t have a ...
The City of Lawrence has joined a community coalition led by the NAACP to memorialize the lynching of three black men near downtown in 1882. The Lawrence chapter of the NAACP is working with the Equal Justice Initiative, which created a national lynching memorial in Montgomery, Ala., to erect ...
The harsh winter and heavy rains of the past year have taken a toll on Lawrence streets, causing the city to delay repairs on some neighborhood streets in favor of addressing issues with busier roadways. Lawrence had 11 snow or ice storms and record-breaking rainfall the past year, as the ...
City leaders on Tuesday affirmed their desire to continue drafting policies related to how police and other city departments interact with undocumented immigrants and federal immigration authorities. As part of its study session Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission reviewed the draft of a ...
City leaders have decided to spend another $1 million on the police department’s new headquarters in west Lawrence. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to spend an additional $1 million to add three more police functions at the headquarters, ...
A Lawrence man suing the city over Queens Road taxing districts has two weeks to secure an attorney, a judge ruled Tuesday, or the entire case could be dismissed. In January, Kurt Schaake, a Queens Road homeowner, filed a lawsuit against the City of Lawrence in Douglas County District Court ...
Faced for the first time with funding requests from multiple large-scale affordable housing projects, the city’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board recommended that the city fund senior apartments and mixed-income townhomes. As part of its meeting Monday, AHAB voted unanimously to recommend ...
City leaders will soon discuss draft policies related to how police and other city departments interact with undocumented immigrants and federal immigration enforcement. As part of its study session Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will review the draft of a document that would codify ...
City leaders will soon decide whether to spend another $1 million on the police department’s new headquarters in west Lawrence. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider spending an additional $1 million to add three more police functions at the ...
In his first 100 days in office, one of the things City Manager Craig Owens noticed firsthand — while driving the city’s streets, observing the alleyway behind his house or pushing his son’s stroller over the sidewalks — was that the infrastructure was in bad shape. Owens said the ...
City leaders will now also be considering an outright ban of plastic disposable bags in addition to a previously proposed disposable bag fee. The Lawrence Sustainability Advisory Board previously recommended that the city charge a 16-cent fee for disposable plastic and paper bags, but it has ...
A major Lawrence intersection near the University of Kansas has reopened to cross-traffic for the first time in more than half a year. The intersection of 19th and Iowa streets reopened Thursday, the city announced in a press release. Access to the intersection from 19th Street had been ...
Previously, one of the few things I knew about sidewalks was: If you wait long enough, the snow will melt. Now, I know another thing: All that rage people had over the city making property owners pay to fix city sidewalks in front of their homes didn’t carry much weight at the ballot box. ...