Another big, proposed renewable energy project in Douglas County appears likely to face big opposition.
If you have driven around rural Douglas County at all in recent months, you’ve surely seen the yard signs opposing “industrial” solar projects and big wind energy farms. Neighbors from the eastern and southwestern parts of the county have teamed up to oppose talk of a solar farm near the county line of ...
I don’t know if it was all the notebooks and pencils or if it was parents hosting their own private celebrations, but the return of kids to school returned Lawrence’s retail scene to slightly healthier ground.
The latest statistics from the Kansas Department of Revenue show Lawrence experienced an 18 percent increase in sales tax collections during the time period that normally is punctuated by ...
Every good Halloween costume has an ample earhole. It is a necessity as costumed children scramble up and down sidewalks, fueled by sugar, occasionally bouncing off light poles. A good earhole lets you hear of the bounty that awaits.
Did you hear about the house that is giving away full-size Snickers?
Are those caramel popcorn balls?
Where did you get an entire can of pop????
As trick-or-treaters take to ...
As the calendar turned to fall, Lawrence’s housing market simply continued its fall. Home sales in September fell by 17% compared with a year ago and, in a sign of the times, that double-digit decline actually could be counted as an improvement.
Lawrence home sales were down 45% in July and 23% in August, so the 17% decline last month could be a sign that the worst is over for the local housing market. But ...
A plan to build a large affordable housing apartment complex along East 15th Street was soundly rejected by the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission on Wednesday, after nearly two hours of public comments from neighbors against the project.
Lawrence city commissioners will have the final say on the rezoning application for the proposed 500-unit apartment complex on a vacant, hilly, heavily wooded ...
Former University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little for the longest time thought a ceremony to name one of KU’s newest and largest laboratory teaching buildings after her was a bit redundant.
After all, the building in KU’s Central District next to the Burge Union, had been in use since 2019. Originally named the Integrated Science Building, the 330,000-square foot building had actually carried ...
