Designing a set for a theater production requires creativity, passion and attention to detail, and can also be quite a challenge. Just ask Rana Esfandiary, assistant professor of design and technology in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Kansas. “I look at designing a ...

"A Place for Everyone." That's the name of the new city and county plan to end chronic homelessness, so you might expect it to be focused on places — affordable and supportive housing for people to live in. And that's certainly a part of it. One of the plan's five "goal areas" calls for more ...

In this place north of North Lawrence, the farmers count acres, the fellows at the grain elevator count bushels, and next to no one counts houses. Why would they in this land dominated by flat, black, tilled fields? Everybody from the pickup driver on the gravel road to the crows overhead ...

Maybe Lawrence City Hall forgot to order new calendars for 2024. Whatever the case, the city has collected almost exactly the same amount of sales tax revenue through the first quarter of 2024 as it did during the same period in 2023. On a balance of more than $7.7 million, the difference ...

At an upcoming public meeting, the City of Lawrence is asking community members to weigh in on what they’d like to see from a $6.1 million renovation planned for the city’s Outdoor Aquatic Center. The city announced in a news release Thursday that it’s beginning a “major” renovation ...

A credit union with a historical connection to the University of Kansas will become the first business to locate in a new venture designed to bring commercial development to the edge of the KU campus. The president and CEO of Truity Credit Union was in Lawrence on Tuesday to announce that the ...