This is a new twist on KU’s Stop Day. University of Kansas students on Friday - the day after regular classes ended, known as Stop Day - were temporarily stopped from turning in assignments, seeing schedules, and a host of other items. The culprit wasn’t a school prank but rather a serious nationwide ransomware attack that impacted hundreds of universities. The company that operates Canvas, a software ...
Get ready for a parking shuffle at the University of Kansas’ Lawrence campus next school year — and, yes, it will involve a shuttle, too. Beginning Aug. 1, KU will restart its dormant park-and-ride program that allows students to park on West Campus and take an approximately 10-minute bus ride to the main campus. The new system — which will utilize two existing lots on West Campus — is expected to ...
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 closing, a manager who met a Journal-World reporter at the door on Monday confirmed the closing, which had been rumored ...
Kansas Lt. Gov. David Toland was in Lawrence Friday to celebrate the official opening of a multimillion dollar affordable housing project in downtown, but also urged that the celebration should only last a short time. Community members need to get busy building the next big project, because he said Lawrence needs to grow to meet its potential. “Our job today with all of that history and as we celebrate ...
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 should annex about 650 acres west of the SLT and Bob Billings interchange. The annexation would be one of the largest in ...
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 there were fewer than 10 homes on the parade. Last year was only slightly better with 13. The event is set to return this ...