In an overflowing City Commission room Tuesday night, fire department staff and dozens of Lawrence residents expressed their concern over a budget proposal to cut daily staffing for the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical department. The proposed 2025 city budget, which was presented to the ...

The playground at Clinton Park is currently closed after someone apparently vandalized a play structure in a way that made it unsafe to use, according to a city official. Mark Hecker, assistant director of Parks and Recreation, said during a Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meeting Monday ...

The major renovation proposed for the Outdoor Aquatic Center at 727 Kentucky St. gives the space a major facelift by gutting lots of the current pool area and replacing it with a lazy river, splash pad and shallow pool. The aquatic center was last renovated nearly 30 years ago, in 1995. The ...

Google Fiber internet could be on its way to Lawrence. City commissioners will vote Tuesday night on an ordinance that would grant Google Fiber the ability to extend its infrastructure into Lawrence to offer broadband in the city. According to the ordinance, the city would enter into a ...

Updated at 4:43 p.m. Monday, July 8 As part of the proposal for next year’s city budget, Lawrence City Manager Craig Owens is asking for a measure to be put on the November ballot in which Lawrence residents would vote on whether to raise the affordable housing sales tax from 0.05% to ...

As Lawrence continues to grow and change, city leaders have worked with the public to create a comprehensive plan that would set out ways the city could develop for its future. One of the hallmarks of that comprehensive plan — Plan 2040 — is figuring out ways to create more dense growth ...