A fire in the unsanctioned homeless camp behind the East Lawrence Amtrak depot on Monday produced flames tall and wide enough for motorists to see as they drove into downtown from North Lawrence.
The flames have long since been extinguished, but questions about the camp continue to smolder at Lawrence City Hall, with perhaps the loudest being: When will the city require the camp on city-owned property to be ...
One hundred years after his birth, the smiling face of former U.S. Sen Bob Dole will be a fixture on the West Campus of the University of Kansas — and perhaps a summer and fall tourist attraction too.
The Dole Institute of Politics on Tuesday announced it has commissioned Lawrence resident and international artist Stan Herd to construct a more than 60-foot-wide earthwork portrait of the Kansas politician and ...
Kalin Baca had a presentation with a detailed drawing of a two-story device that her startup company has designed to recycle complex refrigerant chemicals. She followed it up with spreadsheets that showed the audience multimillion-dollar projections for the nascent engineering firm.
Christopher Niles Enneking had a slightly different pitch style for his startup, which is in the fantasy sports world. With a ...
A quarter of the year is gone, and the numbers are piling up. Here’s a quick look at three sets of numbers — in housing, sales taxes and jobs — that provide a glimpse at how the Lawrence economy is doing thus far in 2023.
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Mark the month of March as a potential turning point in Lawrence’s housing market. The latest numbers from the Lawrence Board of Realtors show that not only did home sales ...
Getting a four-year degree at the University of Kansas soon may require students to spend a lot less time at KU.
Instead, students might be able to take more than half of their classes at community colleges and still graduate with a KU degree, thanks to changes approved Wednesday by the Kansas Board of Regents.
The degree requirement changes apply to KU and the other five Regents institutions — Kansas ...
I’ve never figured out how to grow a pig short enough to produce a "riblet," but it has never been a problem because Lawrence has always had an Applebee’s. No more. Applebee’s has closed its last Lawrence location.
Workers on Tuesday morning were removing equipment, and the Applebee’s sign already had been removed from the restaurant’s building at 2520 Iowa St. A sign on the door reported the ...
