Members of the Lawrence City Commission will conduct elections Tuesday night for who will serve as the mayor and vice mayor in 2025. Commissioners usually choose the mayor and vice mayor based on the results of the most recent election. If tradition holds, current Vice Mayor Mike Dever will be ...
LAWRENCE — Each fall, Ken Lassman dons a thick pair of protective gloves and walks Lawrence’s Prairie Park remnant with a burlap sack, gathering seeds from the withering grasses and wildflowers. This remnant, he explained, is around 9,500 years old — a rare example of old-growth prairie ...
With winter weather approaching in Lawrence, organizers and volunteers working with the Extreme Weather Emergency Shelter Plan are confident that they will be able to provide enough shelter for those who need it this season. As the Journal-World has reported, the City of Lawrence and Douglas ...
If there is one thing Lawrencians can agree on, it’s that Lawrence needs more housing. Housing costs are increasing in the city while not enough homes are being built. The city is on pace to hit a record low in single-family homes this year, as the Journal-World reported, with only 44 ...
The City of Lawrence will soon host its first open house for the Bob Billings Parkway extension project. The two-phase project aims to upgrade the current partially unpaved rural two-lane road to an arterial roadway from Kansas Highway 10 to East 800 Road. The first phase will work on K-10 to ...
The Lawrence City Commission unanimously approved increases to the city's solid waste and stormwater utility rates for 2025 on Tuesday night, some of which were smaller than last year's rate increases. For the solid waste rates, Mike Lawless, the deputy director for Lawrence’s Municipal and ...