If you get a ticket for illegal parking in areas outside of downtown Lawrence, be prepared to pay nearly double the fine you would have earlier this year. That's according to a recent social media post from the Lawrence Police Department. LPD announced that as of Oct. 23, fines for parking ...

Douglas County Emergency Management is inviting the public to attend a winter readiness workshop next month. The workshop will be held at the auditorium in the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Dec. 11. The free event will help people recognize cold ...

Story updated at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10: All lanes of the Kansas River Bridge were open at 4:25 Tuesday afternoon, a few hours after the southbound lanes were closed for a fire beneath the bridge and the northbound lanes were converted to cover both directions. Lawrence Police Department ...

A known drug offender denied giving a vulnerable woman the fentanyl that killed her, but evidence from several cameras and a cellphone led Lawrence police to believe he is the only person who could have done so, according to a recently released arrest affidavit, which also indicates that police ...

The Lawrence Police Department has doubled its downtown patrol team in preparation for the holiday season, expanding the team until the end of the year. The LPD has had a two-person dedicated downtown patrol team since 2024. Now, in preparation for the holiday traffic in downtown, there will ...

A Douglas County judge on Monday ordered a 32-year-old Lawrence massage parlor worker to stand trial on one count of rape after a 19-year-old university athlete testified that he sexually assaulted her during a massage last spring. The woman testified that she went to Lawrence Thai Massage, ...