WRITER: Chad Lawhorn

Lawrence's largest natural gas utility files request to raise rates by about $11 per month for most customers

UPDATED 1:40 P.M. FEB. 4 The largest natural gas provider in Lawrence is seeking a rate increase that likely would add an extra $11 per month onto the bills of most residential customers. Black Hills Energy is seeking approval from the Kansas Corporation Commission for the higher rates, which would begin in the second half of 2025. The KCC is the state’s regulator of public utilities, and any rate changes ...

No ocean, no problem: Lawrence's Clinton Lake Marina named the best marina in the U.S. by top magazine

If you want to find the best marina in the U.S., captain, you might need to dig deep into your pile of maps to find this locale — Kansas. More specifically, Lawrence, Kansas. Never mind the squawking of the parrot on your shoulder, Clinton Lake Marina, just west of Lawrence, has indeed been named the best large marina in the entire country. Marina Dock Age — the largest and most prestigious magazine ...

The site city leaders eyed for a new City Hall has been bought by a local group intent on redevelopment

The site of a large, vacant office building has gone from being the proposed site for a new City Hall to being the proposed site for actual hallways — and bedrooms, kitchens and baths too. An approximately 6-acre site northeast of Sixth and Iowa streets — for years it housed the call center for the student loan company Sallie Mae — was on the verge of being bought by the City of Lawrence in October to ...

New plan calls for row houses to be built in private parking lot of former Borders bookstore in downtown

There’s a new plan for the long-vacant Borders bookstore building in downtown Lawrence — and with this one, the most interesting details aren’t what would happen inside the building, but rather in its parking lot. Row houses. Lawrence businessman Adam Williams has filed plans at City Hall to build 15 row houses along the eastern edge of the Borders parking lot. The Borders building is near Seventh and ...

School district committee backs away from idea of changing boundaries for LHS and Free State

High school students in Lawrence don’t need to pack their moving bags quite yet. Changes to the boundaries for Lawrence High and Free State aren’t likely to occur for the next school year, members of the district’s Boundary Advisory Committee were told at a meeting on Wednesday. “We cannot make adjustments this year for enrollment next year,” Larry Englebrick, deputy superintendent for Lawrence ...

KU ranks three online graduate programs in top 10 nationally; MBA program climbs to No. 7

Three online graduate programs have received national top 10 rankings in a U.S. News & World Report released Monday. KU’s online master’s in special education, its online MBA program, and its online master’s in education administration programs all were ranked in the top 10 in the publication’s 2025 Best Online Programs edition. KU’s special education master’s ranked only behind the ...