The section of Ninth Street that's closed for a stormwater project will soon be extended through Mississippi Street, but some traffic could be flowing again on Ninth by later in the summer. That's according to a news release from the City of Lawrence on Tuesday. The city said that Mississippi ...
North Lawrence’s underpass will soon have a warning system to alert drivers when it floods during heavy rains, city staff told the Journal-World on Tuesday. Shane Golden of the city’s Municipal Services and Operations Division said that work was underway Tuesday on the warning system, ...
A Lawrence ordinance designed to stop landlords from denying an apartment to an individual because they would pay the rent with money from public assistance programs has been dealt a likely fatal blow by the Kansas Legislature. The Republican-controlled Legislature overrode the veto of ...
As Lawrence’s parking manager, Brad Harrell is well aware that parking garages have an image problem. “Parking garages are dark and intimidating by nature,” Harrell says in his brightly lit office in the New Hampshire Street garage. They’re associated with crime and graffiti, and ...
City leaders will vote next week on whether to claw back $558,000 in affordable housing funding from Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center after it stepped away from a supportive housing project. The funding was awarded to Bert Nash from the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund in 2023 and ...
When nine holes at the Jayhawk Club golf course stopped being maintained a few years ago, Scott Robinson said, it was “kind of subtle.” “It was in early 2023,” he said. “You just noticed that the greens and areas weren’t being kept up. It was very subtle.” But he couldn’t ...