A $5.7 million project to improve three federal highways north of Lawrence will get started Thursday, and significant traffic delays may begin as well.
Crews will begin work on three sections of highway, and much of the work will require motorists to be escorted through the construction zones via a pilot car. The three sections of highway are:
— The portion of U.S. Highway 24/40 that runs in front of the ...
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Federal officials are warning that Lawrence’s airport is at risk of losing access to all federal grants, which would end a multimillion-dollar funding stream used by the city to maintain and expand the airport.
City officials received a formal notice in April that a more than year-long investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration has preliminarily determined the city and ...
There are early-stage plans to build a 95-room upscale hotel at 11th and Massachusetts streets to complement the soon-to-open 1,000-person convention center at the University of Kansas’ football stadium.
Lawrence businessman Tony Krsnich — the developer of the Warehouse Arts District in East Lawrence — owns the former Allen Press property at the northeast corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets. He told ...
In some ways, Lawrence leaders may be too focused on creating affordable housing, Mayor Mike Dever told a crowd of real estate professionals on Tuesday.
“I’m trying my best to change the word ‘affordable,’ and just say ‘attainable’,” Dever said. “If you want a house, there should be one there to buy. I don’t care if it is $250,000 or $2.5 million. We don’t have enough of them.”
Dever ...
Later this month, KU will end its 2025 fiscal year having nearly eliminated a $50 million budget deficit on its Lawrence campus.
There won’t be much time to party, though.
The university is projecting a more than $20 million deficit for the next fiscal year, as a new set of financial challenges have emerged.
“As expected, it worked and we got to where we needed to go,” University of Kansas Chancellor ...
The house has come down on college athletics.
Named after a suing student-athlete, the class action lawsuit commonly known as House v. NCAA had its long-awaited settlement approved earlier this month. Beginning July 1, college athletic programs can start handing out about $20.5 million worth of annual payments to their student-athletes.
Schools aren’t obligated to make the payments, but — as athletic ...
