There have been hopes by some west Lawrence residents and developers alike that a large grocery store would locate near the Bob Billings interchange on the South Lawrence Trafficway. But those hopes are dimming as owners of the property have filed plans to change the zoning on much of the vacant land from commercial to residential uses.
If you were a fan of the grocery store idea, consider it another victim of ...
There was a time during February’s polar vortex when I thought it might take me five years to feel my fingers again. Instead, it may just take me five years to pay off the gas bill from the historic winter storm.
That’s not hyperbole. Black Hills Energy, the largest natural gas provider in Lawrence, has announced its plan for charging people for the large amounts of expensive natural gas that were used ...
It was a day of lost funding and future budget threats for the University of Kansas, so much so that KU’s chancellor at one point told the Kansas Board of Regents it was acting irrationally.
KU got unwelcome budget news on both the short-term and long-range levels at Thursday’s Kansas Board of Regents meeting. For the next school year, KU unexpectedly lost $325,000 in state funding that it once appeared ...
University of Kansas leaders are pledging to not use a controversial policy that would have allowed them to suspend tenure protections for faculty members.
KU Chancellor Douglas Girod told the Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday morning that he was confident the university would not have to suspend tenure of any faculty members at the Lawrence campus or the medical center campus in Kansas City, Kan.
The ...
Hundreds of employees at Lawrence's hospital may continue to work remotely long after the pandemic is over.
Leaders of LMH Health on Wednesday told the nonprofit’s board of directors that allowing employees to work remotely was partly a reaction to a tight labor market, but also was a way to address some longstanding problems.
“Our sense is we are seeing a more collective and seismic shift in how people ...
If University of Kansas students want to see higher wages for student employees on campus, they’ll need to fund the program without raising student fees, the Kansas Board of Regents decided on Wednesday.
The same goes for creating new programming for sexuality and gender diversity, improving mental health care on campus, and several other programs.
A divided Board of Regents rejected a KU proposal that ...
