The City of Lawrence extended the closure of Ninth Street near downtown an additional block west to accommodate further construction. The city closed Ninth Street from Louisiana Street to Mississippi Street to traffic on Tuesday as part of the work on the Jayhawk Watershed Middle Reach Project ...
Five poets chosen from an annual poetry contest will see their work displayed on the city’s electric buses for the next year. According to a press release from Lawrence Transit, the five winners of the Lawrence Transit Poet Laureate program will have their work displayed on a bus along ...
Questions remain on whether Lawrence will hit its fiscal goal for the first year of rec center fees. But there’s no question that seniors will play a big role in getting it there. This week, city leaders got an update on the first month of fees from interim Parks, Recreation and Culture ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas property owner wants to impose a restriction across the entire state because of one city’s rules. Stan Weber, CEO and president of Tower Properties, was one of several housing industry professionals who pushed for twin pieces of legislation Feb. 5 during back-to-back ...
Story updated at 4:18 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13: City leaders next week will be asked to approve an airport layout drawing that must be submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration as a condition of receiving future federal funding. At its meeting on Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will ...
Before sharpening its goals for the future, the North Lawrence study task force on Wednesday night had some questions about the past. Some of the members, who were tasked with coming up with a vision statement for the study, were wondering what made it unique among all the other studies and ...