Douglas County’s population of white residents dropped by about 1% in the last decade, while nearly every other racial category saw growth, according to new 2020 Census data.
The number of white Douglas County residents dropped by nearly 1,000 people since 2010, and as a result the percent of county residents who identify as white fell below the 80% level, likely for the first time in the county’s history. ...
I’m not even old enough to remember the days when a student would bring an apple to the teacher. (I’m pretty sure nothing short of an “apple-tini" was going to make my teachers feel better about me.) But my wallet and I are well aware of the trend of students today bringing Apple computers to school. It is a big thing in Lawrence, and now there is a new Apple-licensed retailer looking to capitalize on it. ...
Story updated at 5:26 p.m. Thursday:
Lawrence is still not part of the 100,000-people club.
The U.S. Census Bureau’s official population totals came out Thursday, and Lawrence didn’t hit the 100,000 level, despite City of Lawrence officials estimating earlier that we had well exceeded the mark.
Lawrence’s 2020 census population stands at 94,934 people. The city of Lawrence earlier this year had ...
A more than $40 million affordable housing apartment project is going to happen in south Lawrence after all.
I reported in February that plans had been filed for a 400-plus-bedroom apartment complex to be built near the South Lawrence Trafficway, a few blocks east of Walmart. In addition to being a big project, it was slated to be a unique one because it would be an officially designated, rent-controlled ...
University of Kansas leaders are open to requiring a negative test or proof of vaccination for admittance to certain university events, a spokeswoman said on the heels of a faculty petition calling for stronger COVID standards.
“We will be providing significant incentives for unvaccinated students to get vaccinated as they return to campus,” KU spokeswoman Erinn Barcomb-Peterson said via email Monday ...
