News and notes from around town: Maybe there is something about the southwest corner of Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive that makes it simpatico with the desert. For years it was home to the Salty Iguana Mexican restaurant and now Cactus Grill, a Kansas City-based Tex-Mex restaurant, is set ...

The future of a proposed $234 million solar farm north of Lawrence is facing a pair of calendar challenges — one driven by the Douglas County District Court and the other by President Trump. The Kansas Sky Energy Center — a 600-acre project that would install enough solar panels in ...

I have a standing policy about rumors regarding Costco coming to Lawrence: I’ll believe them when my U-Haul is backed up to the Lawrence store to load the dozens of Costco cakes. (That would be an inevitability because my household loves Costco cake.) Over the last 15 years or so, I’ve ...

Downtown Lawrence’s tallest office building may soon have a new owner. A big “for sale” sign recently went up on the US Bank Tower building at the southeast corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets. As the name implies, US Bank is a major occupant of the building, with its Lawrence ...

A lacrosse stadium, a high-tech golf driving range, and other sports fields are now the latest idea for how to develop vacant land near the South Lawrence Trafficway and U.S. Highway 59 interchange in south Lawrence. The Wichita-based development group that owns the nearly 180 acres at the ...

Whether you hang out at beaches or local government boardrooms (which one leaves you redder is a debate for another day) the Labor Day weekend is an unofficial marker. For the beach bums, it marks the unofficial end of summer. For the government gurus, it marks the beginning of the end of ...