News and notes from around town: ••• If you really like bars, there’s a pending downtown development that may make your head spin (or pound): Two new apartments in between the very active downtown bars The Bottleneck and Leroy’s. However, there is a catch. The two apartments will ...
After more than a decade of rumors, they are finally true: Costco has plans to come to Lawrence. The membership-only discount retailer that is famous for everything from mega-sized household goods to low-priced food court lunches has filed plans at City Hall to build a 166,000-square-foot ...
Tuesday is when we will really find out if anything has changed since the Lawrence City Commission primary election held in August. But, it is fair to say there has been a change in the category of who is leading in the area of campaign contributions. First-time candidate Kristine Polian is ...
Lawrence residents should soon prepare for a key portion of Ninth Street — which leads to downtown and KU’s football stadium — to be closed to thru traffic for months. Now, the questions are: How long will it be closed, and will it be shut down while potentially thousands of World Cup ...
Lawrence’s football fortunes may be on the rebound. Yes, that is an odd statement to make after Saturday’s rivalry game with Kansas State, but the football activity I’m referring to doesn’t involve watching the scoreboards. Rather, look at sales tax reports. (I gladly would have, if ...
While Lawrence is struggling to build new homes, a few hundred of them may soon emerge just a few miles east of the city. On Monday, the 6,500-person community of Eudora — about five miles east of the Lawrence city limits — annexed 134-acres of property along Kansas Highway 10, and ...