Story updated at 4:06 p.m. Thursday, May 11:
The University of Kansas Law School has landed a top-50 ranking from U.S. News & World Report for the first time in the school’s history.
The KU school was ranked No. 40 among all law schools and was ranked No. 18 among law schools at public universities.
The latest ranking is a jump of 27 spots among all schools and 18 spots among public schools compared ...
For more than a decade, the intersection of the South Lawrence Trafficway and U.S. Highway 59 has been circled by developers as a prime location for big-box stores and commercial development.
Times have changed.
If a Wichita developer has his way, the first thing he’ll get to build at the prominent intersection is more than 100 new single-family homes.
Both city planners and the public are getting their ...
Berry Global, the plastics manufacturer that employs hundreds in Lawrence, is closing at least 15 of its manufacturing plants, but hasn’t yet announced which plants are on the chopping block.
Indiana-based Berry disclosed the future plant closings as part of its second-quarter earnings call on Friday. Berry operates two locations in Lawrence and Douglas County that employ about 900 people.
The company ...
Both the bathroom scale and I get nervous any time the word “aweigh” is uttered in my house. But with weekend temperatures forecast to be in the 90s, I may untie from the couch and yell “anchors aweigh” nonetheless.
For those of you doing the same and venturing to nearby Perry Lake, know that there is news on the marina front there. A Texas-based company has bought one of the three marinas on Perry ...
A lot of beers, a lot of burgers, a lot of french fries. For one local restaurant owner, that makes a lot of sense for downtown Lawrence.
The owner of Mr. Brews Taphouse has signed a deal to open a second Lawrence location to go with its existing restaurant on south Iowa Street. The new spot will be at 811 New Hampshire St., which is the big stone building that used to house Yokohama Sushi (and more recently ...
The phrase “some assembly required” doesn’t strike fear in me. I’m confident I will assemble some of it. But, in the end, it often leaves me bewildered. (Why did they send an extra bag of bolts, and why didn’t they say in the instructions that I was going to need this much duct tape?)
But for a group of youth in a local nonprofit, such assembly projects create a sense of empowerment. Soon, more youth ...
