Late Tuesday night, the Lawrence City Commission signed off on a pair of funding agreements related to the launch of a new multidisciplinary homeless outreach team.
At Tuesday’s City Commission meeting, the group voted 3-1 — with Commissioner Amber Sellers opposed after citing concerns ...
The Lawrence City Commission has approved an ordinance that will soon implement a number of changes to how complaints against police are reviewed, including one significant modification that substantially broadens the types of complaints that could be subject to review.
At Tuesday’s City ...
In a special election on Tuesday, voters in Baldwin City approved $17 million in bond issue projects for the Baldwin City school district that will expand and update classroom spaces on the high school campus and address safety and security concerns at the junior high and high school.
All nine ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours.
Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and ...
With no items on the regular agenda for this week’s Douglas County Commission meeting, county leaders will be focusing on learning more about the county’s specialty courts.
At Wednesday’s meeting, commissioners will receive a presentation on the two courts — the Behavioral Health ...
In late 2020, Douglas County commissioners were told by their engineer it would be “tough” for big development projects to meet new, special stormwater regulations created for the rural area north of North Lawrence.
Now, less than four years later, that very area is the proposed site for ...