If the beginning of the new year is that dreaded time where you start listing all your home’s needed maintenance projects, the state’s higher education leaders can offer you a bit of solace.
At least you have a home rather than a university.
Leaders at the University of Kansas and the state’s other five public universities recently completed an end-of-year review of maintenance issues of all their ...
When it comes to Lawrence shoppers and their spending, 2025 ended up being a perfectly ho-hum year — delivered via a roller coaster.
The City of Lawrence recently received its 12th and final sales tax check of the year from the Kansas Department of Revenue. With that, we can now calculate how much consumers spent in the Lawrence economy during the last 12 months.
The tally: $2.05 billion in taxable sales ...
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 ...
