A University of Kansas-hired consultant may be recommending that the university’s football stadium shrink to a capacity of less than 40,000 people as part of a major campus gateway project, but KU’s athletic director is pushing back on the idea.
A day after the Journal-World reported on a consultant’s report that recommended KU shrink the size of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium to 39,839 seats — ...
KU has big plans to turn the area around its football stadium into a hub for conventions and tourism, but it may need to make its football stadium the smallest in the Big 12 to do so.
An outside consultant hired by the University of Kansas is recommending a 55,000-square-foot conference center, a 175-room upscale hotel and even a 2,500-seat concert and event venue for the stadium site near 11th and Mississippi ...
By this time next year, Lawrence should know whether it has won the equivalent of a multimillion-dollar soccer lottery.
That’s one way to look at the 48 “base camps” that will be part of the 2026 World Cup that will be hosted in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Those camps — spread out over all three countries — will be the home away from home for the 48 teams competing in the 37-day tournament that is ...
City officials can picture the day when big Boeing 737 jets are landing at the Lawrence Regional Airport in North Lawrence.
Now, they want to know whether aviation experts can also picture it.
The city has agreed to hire a consultant to conduct an approximately $100,000 feasibility study on whether the runway and other infrastructure at the city-owned airport could be expanded to house large commercial ...
As University of Kansas leaders undertake a major study to determine possible pay increases, it is uncertain whether a new union representing KU faculty will emerge and be part of the process.
In November, a group affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors announced it was taking the necessary steps to form a union to represent the approximately ...
One of the most important statistics in Lawrence has long been the number of college students who descend upon the city for the start of a new school year.
It helps determine issues from big to small — how often the cash registers may ring at local businesses to how many motorists we may encounter driving the wrong way on Kentucky or Tennessee streets.
As the school year approaches, the number may be more ...
