Shoppers will soon have to look beyond Lawrence to find a Bed Bath & Beyond.
The chain retailer has announced that it is closing its lone Lawrence location. The store in the Pine Ridge Plaza shopping center near 33rd and Iowa streets has the going-out-of-business signs up and is running deep discounts.
The retailer had announced in early September that it planned to close about 150 stores across the ...
UPDATED 8:30 A.M. NOV. 15, 2022
Professors and other academics at the University of Kansas are taking public steps to form a union that would represent more than 1,500 KU faculty members.
Several KU faculty members have banded together to form United Academics of the University of Kansas. The group is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors. ...
As a city-operated campground for the homeless has grown on the edge of downtown, business owners in recent weeks have begun protesting that the central business district is no place for such a campground.
Come to find out, they may have a powerful document on their side: the city’s own zoning code.
When questioned by the Journal-World this week, the city’s director of planning acknowledged that a ...
A star was delivered on Friday at the University of Kansas.
KU leaders gathered on Veterans Day to rededicate the Vietnam Memorial on the KU campus and to add a star next to the name of Major Glenn McCubbin, a KU student who died during the Vietnam War.
McCubbin had an extra star placed beside his name because for years the memorial listed him as missing in action. But KU recently learned that McCubbin’s ...
The University of Kansas now thinks the first phase of its plan to upgrade its football stadium and the area around it at 11th and Mississippi streets will cost $115 million more than once envisioned.
KU officials have submitted new documents to the Kansas Board of Regents requesting that the phase one budget for the project be increased to $335 million, up from $220 million when KU last submitted paperwork to ...
Johnny’s Tavern in North Lawrence plans to reopen on Friday morning after owners had closed the historic bar for the last three days in protest of how the city is operating a homeless encampment next to the business.
Rick Renfro, an owner of Johnny’s Tavern, said he’s decided to reopen the restaurant and bar after city officials told him they were working to address his concerns. Renfro said he ...
