University of Kansas leaders on Tuesday dismantled the group that oversaw KU’s response to COVID-19, signaling that KU believes it now has the upper hand on the virus.
Chancellor Douglas Girod said the COVID-19 Unified Command Team has been disbanded on the Lawrence campus, and the university’s Pandemic Medical Advisory Team is no longer conducting regular meetings.
In an email to the university ...
Inflation may be producing one set of numbers in your household. (The number of times I’ll have steak this year: zero, unless putting A-1 sauce on a hot dog is good for partial credit.) But at Lawrence City Hall, inflation is producing a different set of numbers.
One number that may come to fruition by the end of the year: 6 million. That’s roughly the number of unexpected sales tax dollars Lawrence City ...
Maybe the sunscreen industry was behind it, or maybe it just happened organically, but somehow shopping on a sidewalk in July became a Lawrence tradition. Get ready for that tradition to change.
Downtown Lawrence again will have a big retail sale on the third Thursday of July, but the organization has decided to no longer market it as a sidewalk sale. Instead, it will be a “Summer Sale.” Businesses still ...
The University of Kansas wants to spend $15 million to convert a portion of an aging gymnasium and recreation center building into a new home for the university’s ROTC programs.
The Kansas Board of Regents has scheduled a special meeting for 9 a.m. Tuesday to consider approving a plan to undertake significant renovations to the Robinson Center on the KU campus. The meeting also will include approvals for ...
Lawrence customers of the electric utility Evergy will start paying more on their monthly bills to account for costs related to the 2021 arctic blast that struck the region, state regulators decided Thursday.
Kansas City customers of Evergy, however, will start getting a credit on their bills, also related to the February 2021 winter storm, the Kansas Corporation Commission ordered.
Evergy customers in ...
A private Lawrence school plans to get bigger and much more visible with a pending move across town.
Veritas Christian School has struck a deal to move into about 30,000 square feet of space near 31st Street and Kasold Drive, leaving behind its longtime home in a more remote section of northern Lawrence.
“We are kind of tucked away now and people don’t drive by and notice us,” Mike Baker, head of ...
