There’s one category that the University of Kansas is blowing away its Big 12 competition in — the use of wind energy on its campus.
KU leaders on Wednesday announced it had joined the Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership program, which promotes the use of renewable energy and also measures how well cities, counties, universities and other large organizations are doing in their ...
A key piece of paper arrived in the mailboxes of homeowners in recent days. It is the document that explains how much the county thinks your home is worth, which is important because local governments are going to charge you property taxes based off that value.
Upon opening those letters, homeowners may have wondered whether they expanded their homes and simply forgot. Perhaps they had built a vault — filled ...
Take a drive in the countryside northeast of Lawrence, and be prepared to find something that many Lawrence residents likely would deem odd.
There, along Kansas Highway 32 in adjacent Leavenworth County — just a bit past Linwood and that community’s livestock auction barn — is a big, new building under construction. It is a new elementary school for the Basehor-Linwood school district.
In Lawrence, the ...
Despite a lifting of the countywide mask mandate, masks are still required in classrooms at KU, but likely won’t be after spring break, Chancellor Douglas Girod said Thursday morning.
Beginning at 5 p.m. Thursday, though, KU is no longer requiring masks in nonclassroom settings such as libraries, dining halls, research labs, hallways, offices, meeting rooms and similar areas. A message from Girod also said ...
KU has become a “toxic, undemocratic” institution in the last couple of years, faculty, staff and student leaders said Thursday in a formal resolution asking the chancellor to change how KU is governed.
University Senate members voted to approve a resolution asking Chancellor Douglas Girod to create a task force to strengthen the role that university community members have in governing KU. In its ...
A large nonprofit that operates a homeless shelter in Kansas City, Mo. has its eye on Lawrence. But there’s an open question about whether the group wants to start providing new services in Lawrence or whether it plans to use the city as a supply hub for its KC thrift store business.
What is clear is that City Union Mission has filed plans with Lawrence City Hall to convert a vacant convenience store at 23rd ...
