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 ...
There are a multitude of reasons that more than 100 women planned to land their aircraft at Lawrence Regional Airport on Wednesday and Thursday.
There is the sightseeing that goes with traveling to a new part of the country. There’s the skill-building that goes with flying an aircraft through the wind and the clouds. There’s the stereotype-busting that goes with pretty much being a female pilot at all ...
It is no secret that home values are soaring in Douglas County. What may be less understood is how property taxes across the county may rise as a result of those higher home values.
Well, we now have an estimate we can share. If Douglas County and the four cities in the county simply leave their tax rates unchanged from a year ago, those governments will collect more than $14 million in new property taxes this ...
