In part because of rising employee health insurance costs, the Lawrence Public Library’s Board of Trustees has approved a 2027 budget that would raise its mill levy from 4.1 to 4.5 — the maximum mill levy it can approve under city ordinance. The operating budget, which the trustees ...
Douglas County Public Works has closed a section of North 1400 Road starting on Monday for a bridge replacement project. The closed area on North 1400 Road is between East 2300 Road and East 2400 Road, east of Eudora and near the Johnson County line. Construction is expected to last four ...
The Watkins Museum of History will open a new temporary exhibition that will feature photography from two historic weather events that impacted Lawrence. The museum announced in a press release Monday the new exhibition, called “Lawrence in the Path of Destruction,” will open Tuesday. The ...
Lawrence's annual "wheeled art" parade, Art Tougeau, is inviting everyone on Saturday to bring anything that rolls – whether that's a skateboard, a car or something weirder. Art Tougeau started in 1997, and it's been a way to celebrate "creativity and ingenuity with some good, clean fun ...
A Lawrence initiative has collected nearly 50 donated instruments over the last two months, but organizers hope to double that before distributing them to students next school year. This is a joint effort between Meyer Music Stores of the Kansas City area, the Duke Ellington Legacy – a jazz ...
In preparing for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, local leaders in Kansas City and Lawrence suggested that there would be a huge wave of visitors, citing estimates from FIFA that potentially 650,000 people could come to the region during the month-long tournament — a number of visitors larger than ...