If Lawrence’s economy was a race car, its pit crew would be getting a little more anxious with each passing lap. Their car is falling slightly farther behind as the race nears a critical stage. That’s certainly one way to look at the latest sales tax numbers released by the Kansas ...

Let the meat spinning begin. A downtown restaurant spot is set to go from seafood to shawarma. A plan has been filed at Lawrence City Hall for a Shawarma Press restaurant to locate at 947 New Hampshire St., which is the spot that previously housed Krustaceans Seafood. If you are not ...

Anybody who remembers the approximately 20-year effort to win approval for the South Lawrence Trafficway project, likely recalls there’s a formula to the process — first the bureaucrats, then the bulldozers. That formula still holds, which means this was a big week for an approximately ...

Even as a city grew up around it — and a 2018 fire nearly destroyed it — a site just east of 23rd and Haskell has served as a John Deere dealership for decades. By Friday evening that will come to an end. A manager with Heritage Tractor confirmed the company is shutting down its Lawrence ...

In a world of uncertainty, longtime Lawrence developer Doug Compton thinks he’s got one thing figured out: If you are waiting for interest rates to return to their historic lows of 3%, you are going to wait a long time. “I don’t think you will ever see 3% again,” Compton said of ...

Lawrence-based CEK Insurance has had a hectic month, completing a pair of deals to buy a competing agency and to purchase a downtown Lawrence building that will become the new headquarters for the firm. The firm has some history with tough tasks, though. The company was founded in 1931, ...