Lawrence, get ready for a whole lot of bicyclists and a few detours.
The second annual Belgian Waffle Ride has returned to Lawrence and will have bicyclists racing in parts of Douglas and Jefferson counties, and many race celebrations and award ceremonies in downtown Lawrence today and Sunday.
The city of Lawrence is reminding motorists of some street closures and detours that will result from the event, ...
The old joke is that economists were put on Earth to make weather forecasters look good. That said, a Wichita State economist on Friday had no problem in being definitive with a Lawrence crowd about one prediction.
You’ll never get a better deal on a home mortgage than the deal that was offered a year ago.
“We will never see 3% mortgage rates again,” Stanley Longhofer, director of the WSU Center for ...
A leader at Purdue University who is an expert in Latin American and Latino studies will be the first candidate to publicly interview to become KU’s next dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
Alfred López will participate in a public interview at 2 p.m. Monday at Slawson Hall on KU’s Lawrence campus. López is the first of four candidates expected to interview to become the executive dean of ...
Lawrence is a full-time taco fest, isn’t it?
With all the new Lawrence taco restaurants that have opened in recent years, it may feel that way. (I’ve even learned how to drive and eat a taco without getting my head caught in the steering wheel.) But come Saturday, longtime Lawrence event promoter Brett Mosiman said, area residents will experience a true taco festival.
And maybe even national harmony. ...
A University of Kansas researcher who is finding new ways to detect cosmic rays that can answer questions about the universe has won a coveted MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as a “genius grant.”
Steven Prohira, an assistant professor in KU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, is one of 25 winners of an $800,000 fellowship grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the ...
There is no shortage of advice that ends with the command “follow the money.” But what does the money often follow? Homes, many times. So, perhaps it should be no surprise that there’s news of a bank deciding to expand into Eudora.
Eudora is the Douglas County community that will be closest to the new Panasonic electric vehicle battery plant that is expected to produce 4,000 jobs and $4 billion in ...
