City leaders will soon consider spending another $90,000 on a program that shelters homeless people in hotels, allowing the program to continue operating another few weeks amid frigid temperatures. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider authorizing spending ...
Lawrence city leaders will soon discuss whether the city should take responsibility for maintenance of sidewalks once they are repaired to a certain standard. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will receive a report on potential costs of taking over sidewalk ...
Douglas County’s new district attorney Suzanne Valdez told members of Lawrence Community Police Review Board that she has some concerns with their effort to strengthen oversight of complaints against police. Valdez, who replaced longtime District Attorney Charles Branson a month ago, ...
City of Lawrence leaders have agreed to incorporate aspects of the Green New Deal into the city plans, including goals related to environmentally sustainable jobs and infrastructure. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously to direct staff to integrate ...
City leaders have decided not to move forward with a contract to make repairs on the Bowersock Dam after the proposal came in around $400,000 more than anticipated. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1, with Mayor Brad Finkeldei opposed, to authorize city ...
The Lawrence City Commission’s virtual meeting was delayed Tuesday after an interruption, or “Zoom bombing,” which included an image of sexual abuse and a racist message. As the commission’s virtual meeting was opened Tuesday, it was interrupted in brief intervals by noise or heavy ...
After a proposed contract to complete additional repairs on the Bowersock Dam came in higher than anticipated, city leaders will have to decide whether to go ahead with the project as planned or try to reduce some of the estimated $1.9 million price tag. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the ...
With bitterly cold weather forecast for this weekend and next week, the City of Lawrence will be opening its recreation centers and other facilities for use as drop-in warming spots. As the Journal-World has reported, temperatures are expected to be in single digits with subzero wind chills ...
Lawrence police officers will soon begin enforcing the city’s recently lowered speed limits on neighborhood streets. Starting Monday, police will begin pulling over drivers who exceed the new 25 mph speed limit as part of a $40,000, three-month traffic enforcement campaign. Senior Project ...
Lawrence city leaders have approved spending another $208,000 to further study contamination levels at the former Farmland Industries fertilizer plant, but they emphasized that the most difficult decisions about the site's cleanup were still ahead. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence ...
One lane of the southbound bridge over the Kansas River at Lawrence will be closed Tuesday for a waterline repair project. Work was scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and last one day, according to a news release from the City of Lawrence's Municipal Services and Operations department. ...
As part of Lawrence’s yearslong effort to clean up nitrogen spills at the former Farmland Industries fertilizer plant, city leaders will soon discuss spending another $208,000 to further analyze the spread of the contaminants and develop a new remediation plan for the site. As part of its ...
Lawrence city officials say a bill that Kansas legislators are referring to as the “Energy Choice Act” is an attempt to limit local governments’ ability to move toward more renewable energy sources and combat climate change. Last year, Lawrence joined other communities across the nation ...
The Evergy energy company is planning to build an $8.5 million substation in central Lawrence that it says will improve electricity service in the community and strengthen the regional power grid. Evergy purchased land near Kasold Drive and Bob Billings Parkway, near the University of ...
City planners are moving forward with drafting a code change that would allow homeowners to build garage apartments and other smaller living quarters in all neighborhoods. The city will soon begin taking public input regarding the details of the code amendment, and it is expected to go to the ...
A new traffic campaign wants to encourage Lawrence drivers to think about more than just getting to their destination. Lawrence residents have long voiced concerns about speeding in neighborhoods and some motorists’ disregard for pedestrians and cyclists, and a new City of Lawrence campaign ...
When auditors arrive at City Hall this spring to do their annual review of the city’s books, city officials expect they will find that many of the problems of the past two years have been resolved. Others, though, will take more time. In the 2018 and 2019 financial audits, the auditing firm ...
The City of Lawrence has agreed to pay $1,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a longtime pilot who claimed the city hadn’t properly kept up some airport infrastructure, causing damage to an airplane. Great Planes Inc., which operates an airplane hangar and offices at the airport on space ...
Despite a utility assistance program, past-due utility bills continue to pile up for Lawrence residents. As of this month, 3,570 Lawrence households still have utility payments that are more than three weeks past due, amounting to $1.28 million in delinquencies. The city provides water, solid ...
Decades after the City of Lawrence removed a sacred prayer rock from the Kaw Nation’s homelands and made it into a monument honoring settlers, city leaders will begin working to return the rock and issue a formal apology to the tribe. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City ...