The wild and wooly, predator-filled Amazon — the online retailer, of course, not the jungle — may not devour the Lawrence economy after all.
That’s probably good news for a host of local retailers and others in the Lawrence community. But it may create some pain at Lawrence City Hall.
The latest sales tax numbers show the city of Lawrence is on pace to have a more than $3 million budget shortfall in ...
People thought their crispy taco was cracking right before their eyes. They feared that Tuesday was just going to be another dang day that ends in ‘y.’ But fear not, the Taco John’s on Sixth Street is not permanently closing.
But, it is temporarily closed for a major remodeling. And it shut its doors on Tuesday, of all days, which is better known as Taco Tuesday in any town that has a Taco John’s. ...
Lawrence City Hall has received a development filing that would open the door for 500 units of new apartments — totaling more than 1,000 bedrooms — to be built on the far eastern edge of Lawrence.
If approved, it may be one of the first tangible signs of the impact Panasonic’s pending 4,000-job, $4 billion electric vehicle battery plant in De Soto will have on Lawrence’s east side.
The project would ...
Updated at 1:52 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27
The University of Kansas has its largest freshman class ever, and has hit a new 13-year high in enrollment, according to figures released by the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday.
In addition, the new numbers for the fall 2023 semester show that KU had the largest enrollment increase of any Regents university in the state.
KU’s enrollment grew 6.7% to 25,469 ...
It has been a brutal end of the summer for Lawrence’s real estate industry, with sales in July and August falling by 35% from a year ago, according to the most recent statistics.
Home sales in Lawrence were down 45% in July and then were down 23% in August, according to numbers compiled by the Lawrence Board of Realtors.
You can blame the heat, if you want, and you might be figuratively correct. Potential ...
I’ve noted before that my household likes butter. We are that family who orders a lobster dinner and sells the lobster to buy more melted butter. So, you are darn right that I’m intrigued by a pizza that replaces the marinara with butter sauce.
That’s a hallmark of Indian-style pizza, and Lawrence now has just such a pizza purveyor. The Pizza Palace recently has opened at 125 E. 10th St., which is next ...
