A portion of the Bowersock Dam on the Kansas River has failed, but it is not creating any flooding concerns. Quite the opposite, actually.
The dam, which sits on the stretch of the Kaw that runs alongside downtown Lawrence, isn’t a flood control dam but rather helps provide water for Kansas’ only hydroelectric power plant, the Bowersock Mills & Power Company.
The dam, though, does more than that. It ...
The KU-run Hilltop Child Development Center has lost more than half its teachers and students in the last year, and now university leaders are questioning the viability of the more than 50-year-old center.
A group of the center’s employees, parents and past parents, though, are questioning something else: The center’s executive director, who has been in place for about a year.
The group earlier this month ...
Never doubt the level of curiosity among University of Kansas researchers. Sometimes they are interested in finding out what happened in a time period as small as a few millionths of a second.
If they happen to be the first few millionths of a second in the creation of our universe, even better.
A KU team indeed has been chosen to work on that task and has received a $1 million federal grant to build equipment ...
Lawrence’s real estate industry overall is on pace for a losing year — especially after a tough July — but there may be news of improvement for one segment of the market: Home buyers.
While Lawrence home sales are down sharply thus far in 2026, the number of homes on the market is much higher than in past months, and there are even some limited signs that home prices are beginning to drop in the city.
Of ...
New Lawrence fire chief Joe Hardy admits that initially he wasn’t too charged up about the idea of an electric hybrid fire engine being added to the city’s fleet of firefighting equipment.
But Friday, Hardy and dozens of other fire department officials and community members were plenty excited about the city’s new electric hybrid fire engine being put into service.
“This fire truck is the first of its ...
A pair of landscape paintings meant to highlight themes of how nature and the universe are interconnected have been chosen as the KU Common Work of Art for the upcoming school year.
Both landscape panels were created by Kay WalkingStick, a former art professor at Cornell University and a member of the Cherokee Nation who often uses her art to convey both natural and abstract scenes side-by-side to examine life ...
