Look for a new barbecue restaurant to open soon in the former Slow Ride Roadhouse location in North Lawrence. Don’t expect much to move slow at the new Fire Canyon Barbeque restaurant, though. Co-owner Darren Shafer likes to take experimentation at a fast pace.
While Fire Canyon will offer all the staples of Kansas City-style barbecue — pulled pork, brisket, burnt ends, ribs and other such items — Shafer ...
An opioid addiction treatment center in Lawrence has filed plans to expand, and it hopes to become more convenient for people who need its help.
Behavioral Health Group has filed plans at City Hall to expand the services it offers at its clinic in the shopping center at 19th Street and Haskell Avenue.
While the center initially doesn’t expect to grow its physical space at the eastern Lawrence shopping ...
As the city of Eudora gets ready to grow outward, it has looked inward to fill its top City Hall position.
The Eudora City Commission on Monday agreed to hire Kevyn Gero as the community’s next city manager. Gero, a former city of Lawrence administrator, has been the assistant city manager in Eudora for about two years, and has been serving as Eudora’s interim city manager for the last six months. ...
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran on Friday declined to label the federal case against former president Donald Trump as unfair, and said the judicial system should be allowed to do its work on the matter.
Following a Lawrence event, Moran — a Kansas Republican — made some of his first public statements about the 37-count indictment that alleges Trump improperly kept intelligence documents and obstructed justice when ...
A University of Kansas-hired consultant may be recommending that the university’s football stadium shrink to a capacity of less than 40,000 people as part of a major campus gateway project, but KU’s athletic director is pushing back on the idea.
A day after the Journal-World reported on a consultant’s report that recommended KU shrink the size of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium to 39,839 seats — ...
Area leaders believe the West Campus of the University of Kansas has a strong chance to become a national hub for cybersecurity research and related companies.
They’ve long had a well-placed patron of that cause in U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, who recently has become even more influential in U.S. national security with his appointment to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Moran on Friday told a ...
