WRITER: Chad Lawhorn

Plans filed to annex new land into the city, add about 200 homes along Queens Road in northwest Lawrence

Lawrence’s city limits may expand to the northwest to allow for a large new housing development. Plans have been filed at City Hall to convert a gravel road on the outskirts of town into a new city street that would lead to nearly 200 new homes. The plans are for the area just north of where Queens Road ends and the gravel township road known as East 1000 Road begins. Multiple applications have been filed at ...

A document dispute will delay start of solar farm trial until at least November 2026, judge rules

Douglas County officials and opponents of a proposed solar farm are feuding over everything from digging to documents in a lawsuit that continues to drag on in Douglas County District Court. On Monday, both parties learned those disputes mean a trial in the lawsuit won’t start until after Thanksgiving 2026, at the earliest. As has been the case since the lawsuit was filed in May 2024, neighbors — led by ...

A look at what new, anti-DEI legislation in Kansas might stop KU, other universities from requiring

December was oversight month at the Kansas Statehouse, as lawmakers gathered for committee meetings to review a variety of topics, including the issue of whether state universities are refraining from pushing diversity, equity and inclusion beliefs upon students. A new law prohibiting many DEI initiatives on public campuses has been a chore for many universities to manage this school year — requiring ...

A look at plans for KU's new three-story entrepreneur center slated for the top of the Hill

The “top of the Hill” used to be a place to buy your books. Soon, it will be a place to build your business. (In between, it was a place to bulge your belt, if you recall the days when it was a bakery.) We’ve reported a few times over the last few months that the University of Kansas intends to turn the site that used to house the Jayhawk Bookstore at 1420 Crescent Road — near the top of Mt. Oread — ...

Kansas City-based Cable Dahmer dealership buys Lawrence Kia, which has been under investigation

One of Kansas City’s largest car dealers has come to Lawrence, and it has taken over one of the city’s busiest and most scrutinized dealerships. Cable Dahmer — the owner of eight dealerships in the Kansas City and Topeka metros — has completed a purchase of Lawrence Kia. In recent days, signs on the Kia dealership at 1225 E. 23rd St. were swapped out to include the Cable Dahmer name. Cable Dahmer ...

KU's Religious Studies department wins grant to form new connections with health care providers

The University of Kansas has won a $60,000 grant that may help create a new set of classes that combine religion and health care. The two-year grant from the nonprofit group Interfaith America will help KU’s Department of Religious Studies form new relationships with health care providers, which in turn could inform a new academic program that KU hopes to create. “We’re hoping to start a religion, ...