News and notes from around town. — Everything is bigger at Costco — including worries that something will derail the retailer’s plans to open in Lawrence later this year. When Costco announced in November that it had decided to build a giant retail store near Rock Chalk Park in ...

The powers that be at Lawrence City Hall aren’t expecting much from Lawrence shoppers in 2026. At least, that’s how the city’s budget reads. The 2026 budget expects to collect $57.2 million in sales taxes this year. In 2025, the city collected about $56.3 million, according to figures ...

With activity among Lawrence chicken wing restaurants heating up, a large chain has taken flight from the city. Buffalo Wild Wings closed its restaurant on Iowa Street, its only location in Lawrence, at the end of business on Sunday. While there was no sign at the restaurant announcing the ...

UPDATED 4:40 P.M. April 30 The city’s road to large scale residential development west of the South Lawrence Trafficway has a speed bump on it. Commissioners on the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission last week were scheduled to consider making a recommendation on whether the city ...

When it comes to Lawrence’s annual Spring Parade of Homes — even in notoriously weather-fickle Kansas — the “spring” has sometimes been easier to come by than the “homes.” In 2022, there were so few new homes on the Lawrence market that the parade was cancelled, and in 2024 ...

I know mulligans are certainly allowed in the golf games I play (I insist on either a mulligan or a machete,) but we’re set to find out how they play when it comes to development proposals along one of Lawrence’s premier golf courses. After the Lawrence City Commission late last year ...