The homeless population of Lawrence and Douglas County has increased by 51% in one year — by far the largest increase in the state — according to numbers compiled in January but largely out of public view until recently.
While debate about the city’s strategy for serving the homeless has dominated many city meetings this year, it has done so without the most basic of numbers — a federally mandated ...
Go, fight, win ... Topeka.
That’s a phrase that may sound a little odd reverberating off Mt. Oread or echoing down Massachusetts Street, but Lawrence community leaders are getting behind the idea of rooting for the capital city.
The Lawrence chamber of commerce and Topeka’s equivalent — the Greater Topeka Partnership — have been working together for more than a year to create closer ties between the ...
If you are buying a home right now, finding one is only half the battle. Surviving the sticker shock that comes with 30-year mortgage rates at or near 7% is quite a chore itself.
Next year is when that sticker shock will begin to fade, one of Kansas’ leading real estate economists is now predicting.
But no, that doesn’t mean you should expect a dramatic decline in interest rates. Rather, it simply means ...
The banner welcoming visitors to the Maple Leaf Festival — always the third full weekend in October — is already hung in downtown Baldwin City.
The aforementioned maple leaves in this town of about 4,800 people just south of Lawrence are doing their part too. They are beginning to change, right on cue, as thousands of visitors will pile into the small town for crafts and fall color.
For the locals, ...
The wild and wooly, predator-filled Amazon — the online retailer, of course, not the jungle — may not devour the Lawrence economy after all.
That’s probably good news for a host of local retailers and others in the Lawrence community. But it may create some pain at Lawrence City Hall.
The latest sales tax numbers show the city of Lawrence is on pace to have a more than $3 million budget shortfall in ...
People thought their crispy taco was cracking right before their eyes. They feared that Tuesday was just going to be another dang day that ends in ‘y.’ But fear not, the Taco John’s on Sixth Street is not permanently closing.
But, it is temporarily closed for a major remodeling. And it shut its doors on Tuesday, of all days, which is better known as Taco Tuesday in any town that has a Taco John’s. ...
