Demolition on the east side of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium will begin next month, and KU leaders now say a portion of the east side of the stadium will open for the 2026 football season.
University of Kansas Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWitt told the Journal-World that demolition on the east grandstands likely will begin in mid-December, just a couple of weeks after KU’s final home football game of ...
News and notes from around town:
— Plans have been filed for a new upscale apartment complex in northwest Lawrence. A Nebraska development company hopes to build about 125 units of “luxury, class A” apartment units near the intersection of Queens Road and Wakarusa Drive.
If you are having a hard time picturing the location, it is a farm field at the northeast corner of the intersection’s roundabout. ...
It had been 72 hours since Ken Hush had taken over as interim president of his alma mater, Emporia State University.
Despite growing up in Emporia, Hush wouldn’t exactly say he was comfortable in his new setting. He had spent more than 20 years as a successful executive with Wichita-based Koch Inc., in its carbon division, which is shorthand for oil, gas and other fuels that power the world.
Hush led ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod is uncertain how much a voluntary early retirement program for tenured faculty may reduce the size of KU’s workforce, but he does have one belief about the university’s workforce going forward.
“When you think about it, you do ultimately need to get to a smaller workforce if you are going to get to a better-paid workforce,” Girod said in a brief interview ...
States like Colorado, Wyoming and Utah may have mountains and canyons that beautifully fill picture windows, but Kansas has one type of window that makes geologists in those state’s envious.
A window to the world beneath our feet.
The Lawrence-based Kansas Geological Survey has one of the country’s largest collections of core drilling samples, which are cylinders of rock and soil that show the layers and ...
Some news and notes from Tuesday’s local elections in Lawrence and Douglas County:
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A big takeaway in the Lawrence City Commission race is that voters were of one mind about two people.
You used to hear of how Lawrence had an east-west divide on local, political matters. There were no signs of that this year. Newcomer candidates Mike Courtney and Kristine Polian were the big winners, finishing ...
