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 ...
Story updated at 4:36 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25:
The number of reported rapes on the University of Kansas’ Lawrence campus last year more than doubled from a year earlier.
The number of “dating violence” crimes also soared, increasing more than tenfold, according to recently released campus crime numbers.
But whether sexual violence crimes actually are increasing at such a rapid rate on the Lawrence ...
There are backhoes and dump trucks busily at work near the intersection of Sixth Street and George Williams Way. There have been a lot of assumptions that the work is for a Braum’s restaurant and ice cream shop that we reported in May is coming to the area. (It makes sense to me because I do assume Braum’s will use a backhoe and dump truck to deliver my serving of ice cream.)
Well, Braum’s fans are kind ...
