UPDATED: 9:20 P.M. APRIL 9, 2024
When it comes to ensuring that a proposed 1,100-acre solar farm in Grant Township doesn’t produce stormwater flooding for neighboring North Lawrence, a key regulator of the project said some work has been left undone.
Gary Rexroad, chair of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission, was one of four planning commissioners in December who voted to recommend the project ...
One of the larger used car dealers in Lawrence has disappeared, almost without a trace.
Clemons AutoMax, 1527 W. Sixth St., definitely appears to be closed for good. The lot is empty of vehicles, the showroom is devoid of employees, and the company’s website now redirects to a dealership in Lincoln, Nebraska.
If you are having a hard time picturing the dealership, it took over the longtime location of the ...
In this place north of North Lawrence, the farmers count acres, the fellows at the grain elevator count bushels, and next to no one counts houses.
Why would they in this land dominated by flat, black, tilled fields? Everybody from the pickup driver on the gravel road to the crows overhead knows that there are few of them. What’s more, not many of the residents here are particularly interested in having more ...
Maybe Lawrence City Hall forgot to order new calendars for 2024. Whatever the case, the city has collected almost exactly the same amount of sales tax revenue through the first quarter of 2024 as it did during the same period in 2023.
On a balance of more than $7.7 million, the difference between the two years is just $295. While mathematically interesting, that’s not good for a city that has budgets that ...
Nadya Tolokonnikova, who spent nearly two years in a Russian prison for a 40-second song criticizing Vladimir Putin, had two messages for a University of Kansas crowd on Thursday evening.
The founder of the Russian feminist, protest, art and music group Pussy Riot had a simple enough message for U.S. politicians and anyone else in a position of power to help Ukraine in its fight against the Russian military. ...
On a day when the nation’s top cybersecurity crime fighter was on the University of Kansas campus, leaders announced that KU has received $22 million in federal funding to build a new national security research center in Lawrence.
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., announced that a yearslong effort to secure federal funding for the center has been successful. Moran made the announcement while introducing FBI ...
