A planned $55 million National Security Innovation Center on KU’s West Campus has signed its first tenant, and it indeed will be keeping an eye on airborne threats.
Think wind, snow, rain and hail.
The National Weather Service has signed an agreement to locate a regional forecasting center in a portion of a yet-to-be-constructed 100,000-square-foot building that is designed to provide space for businesses ...
Story updated at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30:
The cigarette butt was still warm when Lawrence Police Department Detective Mike McAtee picked it off the ground of the crime scene in Naismith Valley Park.
But more importantly, it was still covered with DNA.
The detective was on the scene Aug. 25, 2000, to investigate a sexual assault against a child. The victim, a 7-year-old girl, said her attacker had been ...
Douglas County officials and opponents of a proposed solar farm are feuding over everything from digging to documents in a lawsuit that continues to drag on in Douglas County District Court.
On Monday, both parties learned those disputes mean a trial in the lawsuit won’t start until after Thanksgiving 2026, at the earliest.
As has been the case since the lawsuit was filed in May 2024, neighbors — led by ...
Lawrence’s city limits may expand to the northwest to allow for a large new housing development. Plans have been filed at City Hall to convert a gravel road on the outskirts of town into a new city street that would lead to nearly 200 new homes.
The plans are for the area just north of where Queens Road ends and the gravel township road known as East 1000 Road begins. Multiple applications have been filed at ...
December was oversight month at the Kansas Statehouse, as lawmakers gathered for committee meetings to review a variety of topics, including the issue of whether state universities are refraining from pushing diversity, equity and inclusion beliefs upon students.
A new law prohibiting many DEI initiatives on public campuses has been a chore for many universities to manage this school year — requiring ...
The “top of the Hill” used to be a place to buy your books. Soon, it will be a place to build your business. (In between, it was a place to bulge your belt, if you recall the days when it was a bakery.)
We’ve reported a few times over the last few months that the University of Kansas intends to turn the site that used to house the Jayhawk Bookstore at 1420 Crescent Road — near the top of Mt. Oread — ...
