Out on the tarmac of Lawrence Regional Airport, a beautiful sunflower is about to bloom – beautiful, and also useful. It’s a compass rose, to help pilots calibrate or “swing” their compasses. On Friday, a few volunteers were out drawing the geometry for the design, and on Saturday ...
The formula that Lawrence and Douglas County use to split their fire and EMS expenses could get a major update soon – one that the department says will make the split more stable as staffing grows and changes. But, in the near term, don't expect it to yield a much different split than this ...
“A dragnet of cameras,” “a new level of surveillance,” “Big Brother.” These are all things members of the community said on Wednesday night at a listening session about Lawrence police’s camera registry and aggregation program, and Chief Rich Lockhart is adamant that none of them ...
Parts of two Lawrence neighborhoods are scheduled for sidewalk repairs in 2026 as part of the city's ongoing effort to bring its infrastructure into compliance with ADA accessibility standards. The city's ADA Right of Way Transition Program will be targeting areas in the Sunset Hill and ...
City recreation trails behind Sports Pavilion Lawrence will be closed for a while to repair damage caused by recent storms, Lawrence Parks and Recreation said on its social media pages this week. The department said the trails that extend to East 1000 Road have suffered "erosion, mud-covered ...
The artificial intelligence boom has driven companies to search nationwide for space to build "hyperscale" data centers – and it turns out, Lawrence is actually a place they could go. Not only that, the large energy-using structures wouldn't need much in the way of special approvals from ...