After about six months, a pilot night-court program in the Lawrence Municipal Court is being discontinued after failing to draw enough participants outside of the court’s regular hours. City Manager Craig Owens announced the move during the Lawrence City Commission meeting earlier this week. ...

The question of just how many duplexes are allowed on one lot under Lawrence’s city code was front and center as the two-day bench trial for a church’s lawsuit against the City of Lawrence began Wednesday morning. As the Journal-World has reported, First Presbyterian Church is suing the ...

All eight of the rezoning requests for a sprawling development project located partially in the Wakarusa River floodplain along the South Lawrence Trafficway earned a stamp of approval from Lawrence city leaders Tuesday night — including six that needed a supermajority to advance. At ...

A large group of Lawrence Community Shelter workers came to Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission meeting to demand additional city funding to support wage increases. As the Journal-World has reported, the shelter’s workers unionized in October 2023 and a couple of months later publicly ...

Eight rezoning requests for a sprawling development project along the South Lawrence Trafficway are up for consideration at this week’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, but they'll need more affirmative votes than usual to earn approval. On Tuesday, Lawrence leaders will consider the ...

Lawrence's Parks and Recreation Department will be conducting a prescribed burn on the native grass areas in the Rotary Arboretum in southwest Lawrence. A prescribed, or authorized, burn is used to control weeds and to maintain the native grasses without using pesticides. Prescribed burns ...