The City of Lawrence on Thursday announced that the next Municipal Court judge will be prosecutor Elizabeth Hafoka. After a national search, the city selected Hafoka, who has more than 14 years of experience in the City of Lawrence Prosecutor's Office, where she has been the supervising ...

City leaders are hoping Lawrence will be chosen for a pilot project that uses a little-utilized state law to acquire and rehabilitate abandoned homes for affordable housing. The project is by the nonprofit organization Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City, which put out a request for ...

Two buildings in the Oread neighborhood that city staff says have historic value could be a problem for the first “very-high-density” housing project in Lawrence's history. The project is Lawrence businessman Doug Compton's two-building, 300-bedroom apartment complex called The Place @ KU. ...

“It’s not good for printing,” this photo that Gary Mark Smith took of a few boys on the streets of Tangier, Morocco. It’s not violent or dark or frightening, like so much of the stuff he’s seen in nearly half a century of photographing the most dangerous streets on Earth. But it’s ...

After the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center stepped away from a permanent supportive housing project, an advisory board is recommending the city claw back more than half a million in affordable housing funds — a first for the city. As the Journal-World reported, Bert Nash said last ...

Electricity and gas companies have a special rule that governs when they can shut off services in the winter months, but you might not have known the City of Lawrence’s water service limits its cold-weather shutoffs, as well. The city’s current practice is to not shut off customers’ ...