Future development around KU’s football stadium — currently undergoing a partial $450 million renovation to add a conference center and other amenities — has recently become more complicated. Soon, local governments may be asked to ease some of those complications by providing financial ...

For much of its more than 165-year history, there’s been a pretty straightforward, statistical rule in Douglas County: Lawrence has the bigger number. After all, for a long time now, Lawrence has had about 80% of Douglas County’s total population. So, unless the number was dealing with ...

Keith Muller walked into the west Lawrence bicycle shop Cycle Works last year and made the most expensive purchase of his life. He bought the entire business after coming in to buy a $2 bike part. But Muller did so, in part, because he thinks the shop can help bring a trend to Lawrence that ...

Lawrence Whataburger fans can now circle a date on their calendars — Oct. 28. An official with the Kansas City-based franchise that owns the Lawrence Whataburger location told me the company is pushing really hard to have the restaurant — which would be Lawrence’s first Whataburger — ...

On that December night when flames shot through the roof of her downtown Mexican restaurant, Cielito Lindo, owner Lourdes Esmeralda Perez Rojo had many thoughts going through her mind. Most were about tomorrow, as thousands and thousands of gallons of water from Lawrence firefighters were not ...

It is the final chapter for a downtown Lawrence building that used to produce many a chapter in academic journals around the world. A large track hoe excavator began punching holes in the cinderblock walls of the former Allen Press building at 11th and New Hampshire streets at about 9:45 a.m. ...