Construction work began Monday on a $2.5 million visitors center at Clinton State Park, which leaders hope will spur a new round of interest in the 7,000-acre lake just west of Lawrence.
After all, it is well known that Lawrence residents love open space, but what is less known among the population is that Clinton Lake has more than 20 square-miles of public land that surrounds the lake itself, with much of it ...
KU posted a 17% increase in total research expenditures in 2024, with the total amount of research activities topping the half-billion dollar mark for the first time in the university’s history, KU announced on Friday.
The numbers, though, also served as a reminder of the rising stakes for KU as the Trump administration seeks to pull back on efforts related to diversity, equity and inclusion in higher ...
With much uncertainty about the future of federal jobs, LinkedIn might be the busiest website in America these days. (Well, maybe tied with ChatGPT and the query of “how to tell Elon Musk ...”)
The point is, job searches may become a much more prevalent activity in the near future, and with that in mind, I stumbled across some numbers that provide an interesting look at how many jobs are located in each ...
Updated at 10:45 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 27
One of Lawrence’s larger Mexican restaurants is closed, and its assets have been seized by the Kansas Department of Revenue in an effort to collect more than $100,000 in unpaid sales and liquor drink taxes.
The Salty Iguana Mexican restaurant in the shopping center at the southwest corner of Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive had bright red “seized” signs on its ...
An issue regarding gender-neutral bathrooms has University of Kansas students on edge that KU leaders are bowing to a Trump administration demand to pull back on diversity and equity efforts on campuses.
It also has some KU students looking for a new place to live.
Residents of the Grace Pearson Scholarship Hall were informed by KU Student Housing earlier this month that a program that allowed for “gender ...
I know some people who likely wouldn’t object to their final resting place being next door to a Hershey’s plant.
Indeed, there is a cemetery just down the road from the Hershey’s manufacturing plant in Lawrence Venture Park on the east edge of the city. If you didn’t know of the cemetery, don’t feel bad. It likely hasn’t hosted a burial for more than 100 years.
That soon may change.
Plans have ...
