When it comes to Lawrence shoppers and their spending, 2025 ended up being a perfectly ho-hum year — delivered via a roller coaster. The City of Lawrence recently received its 12th and final sales tax check of the year from the Kansas Department of Revenue. With that, we can now calculate ...
A planned $55 million National Security Innovation Center on KU’s West Campus has signed its first tenant, and it indeed will be keeping an eye on airborne threats. Think wind, snow, rain and hail. The National Weather Service has signed an agreement to locate a regional forecasting ...
Lawrence’s city limits may expand to the northwest to allow for a large new housing development. Plans have been filed at City Hall to convert a gravel road on the outskirts of town into a new city street that would lead to nearly 200 new homes. The plans are for the area just north of ...
The KU spinoff company Icorium Engineering is all about being cold. But the enterprise that focuses on new technology for the refrigeration industry can now claim to be one of Lawrence’s hottest start-up companies. Icorium earlier this month received a $1.2 million National Science ...
For the first time in years, Kansas enters an offseason with uncertainty at quarterback. That alone should make for an extremely intriguing transfer-portal window for the Jayhawks. At first it seemed they would primarily have to build an offensive line and a corps of skill-position players to ...
Lawrence is assured of having its second consecutive year of increasing home sales, and this year may come with the bonus of moderating home prices as well. But whether the Lawrence real estate market enters 2026 with good tidings is still an open question, as November’s totals marked the ...
