A long-simmering, multimillion-dollar debate between LMH Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas came into full view Wednesday morning as the hospital questioned the future of its relationship with the area’s largest health insurance provider.
Members of the nonprofit hospital’s board of trustees were told that negotiations between LMH Health and BCBS of Kansas were no longer progressing well and that ...
Even before the pandemic, a part of the Lawrence economy was ailing — county residents were seeing their incomes grow at one of the slowest rates in the state.
New federal numbers released Tuesday show that income growth in Douglas County ranked 101st out of the 105 counties in Kansas in 2019. Yes, you remember 2019, a time when masks were for bank robbers and toilet paper supplies weren’t a leading cause ...
As many an empty corner at a cocktail party can attest, no one really wants to hear me talk about my job. Regardless, I am going to share some news from the job front today because the Journal-World does have a new project I want people to know about.
The Journal-World and its sister website KUsports.com recently launched LawrencePhotoStore.com. It is our effort to take advantage of more of our resources, and ...
I’m not sure that there is universal agreement that my home has become more valuable as I spend more time in it, but home prices in Lawrence certainly have been soaring as the pandemic produces more homebodies.
The latest report from the Lawrence Board of Realtors shows home sales increased in October, but the real eye-popping figures are a rise in median selling prices. The median selling price for a home ...
A crowd of about 40 people gathered at Haskell Indian Nations University on Wednesday for a Veterans Day celebration that included traditional commemorative speeches and Native American musical and spiritual traditions.
Yes, I will hike up a hill for a cinnamon roll, but I may roll back down it if I have one too many. For folks not quite up for that adventure, a bakery at the top of Mount Oread is now expanding to flatter ground on Iowa Street.
McLain’s Market has signed a deal to locate in the old Slim Chickens restaurant building at 2412 Iowa St. The Kansas City-based bakery and restaurant chain hopes to be open in early ...
