Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday agreed to purchase the former newspaper printing press building downtown, to be used as a city hall annex, for $2.1 million. They’re not rushing to complete an ...

City staff are proposing a 2.5% wage increase for all city employees in 2027, plus step increases for some, backed by a wage study a consultant presented to city commissioners Tuesday. “The fiscal ...

Lawrence school board members voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve new contracts with raises for the district’s ...

Streamline Coffee will permanently close its doors in downtown Lawrence on Tuesday, and a new Tex-Mex restaurant has opened across town. The shop’s final day of business is Tuesday, with hours until 2 ...

Lawrence school board members did not yet vote Tuesday on whether to raise school meal prices next year by 15 cents for ...

Johnson County Transit has suspended the K-10 Connector bus service for the summer, and Lawrence Transit is expanding service with new “Score Lawrence” routes for World Cup match days. The K-10 ...

Outfitted with a little eyelash glue and tiny, solar-powered tags, Kristen Baum and her team at Monarch Watch will be able to watch the progress of monarch butterflies hatched in Lawrence as they fly ...

A Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday denigrated the race’s frontrunner, accusing him of covering up a ...

Nine candidates have tossed their hats in the ring for a district judge vacancy in Douglas County. The vacancy was created by Judge Sally Pokorny’s retirement in April. The Seventh Judicial District ...

Inside a room of dark blue cloth, soft light and layered patterns, Wabwila Mugala’s “Quilted Existence” asks viewers to do more than look. The installation, which opens Friday at the Lawrence Arts ...

The Dole Institute of Politics at KU has announced a summer of programming themed around the 250th anniversary of the ...