Panasonic’s $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant in De Soto currently has 400 employees and will have 1,000 by the summer and 2,000 by early next year, the governor and other state leaders were told on Friday. With a host of area leaders looking on at a celebratory event in the ...

A little more than a year ago, Lawrence real estate agent John Esau was given a tall order — about five stories tall, actually: Convert the five-story 800 Lofts building in downtown Lawrence from an apartment complex to condos. The owners of the building at Eighth and New Hampshire ...

News and notes from around town: ••• A flock of Jayhawks, so to speak, has delivered more than a half-million dollars in funding to a group of KU-connected start-up companies. As we’ve reported, officials at KU Innovation Park have created a new “angel investor” network that ...

Lawrence not only set a new record low for single-family home construction in 2024, it took a hammer and saw to the old record and demolished it. The City of Lawrence issued just 57 single-family building permits during the last year, which was well below the previous low-water mark of 79 ...

Many of you are probably familiar with the television program “MythBusters,” where a group of somewhat nerdy science aficionados disprove many myths — often by blowing something up. Well, the folks at the U.S. Census Bureau can do the same thing, and usually use a lot less dynamite in ...

The world may have been bumpy in 2024, but shoppers were steady. The city of Lawrence’s budget: Less so. We now have a year’s worth of sales tax collections in the book, and Lawrence’s 2024 totals don’t look much different than 2023 figures. Lawrence sales tax collections were up by ...