Homeowners who generate their own solar power to supply part of their electricity needs will no longer be charged a special fee by the state’s largest electric utility, Kansas regulators have ruled.
The Kansas Corporation Commission on Thursday issued an order that repeals a special rate system for customers of Evergy who produce their own power through solar panels or other means.
The ruling means that ...
Crab and lobster are essential foods because I’ve been told it is uncouth to put that much butter directly into your mouth. In other words, I like a lot of butter on my shellfish, and a soon-to-open Lawrence restaurant is betting lots of other people will too.
Signs have gone up for Krustaceans Seafood to open at 947 New Hampshire St., which is the spot that formerly housed the Bayleaf Indian restaurant. The ...
There aren’t big business jets that land on the grass runway at the Vinland airport. But there sure are a lot of jobs landing at the country airstrip between Baldwin City and Lawrence.
About every couple of years, it seems like McFarlane Aviation builds another 20,000-square-foot building, or more, to house more jobs for a booming business that supplies replacement parts for airplanes across the country. ...
After a more than 20-year wait for the completion of the eastern leg of the South Lawrence Trafficway, it was only natural to wonder what that bypass project would draw to the area. We are getting a pretty clear answer on one front now: large new apartment complexes.
Plans have been filed for a $28 million, 400-plus bedroom apartment complex along the eastern leg of the SLT. The project is slated to go next to ...
There have been a few times that I’ve wished for a “reverse” St. Patrick’s Day Parade. (Reverse hitting “post” on that Facebook photo, reverse getting too close to the Sandbar float, reverse the hypothesis that all types of green dye are easily washable.) That’s not remotely close to the type of reverse St. Patrick’s Day Parade that will happen in Lawrence this year, but organizers of the major ...
Leaders at LMH Health are convinced the state’s largest health insurance company pays LMH less for medical care than hospitals in places like Topeka receive for providing the same type of care.
LMH leaders said this past week that they’ve launched new negotiations with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas to correct the financial discrepancy. And some hospital officials indicated they were willing to get ...
