There are signs that the University of Kansas is getting more serious about building a new dormitory to help serve student enrollment that has grown during the last two years.
KU is seeking preliminary approval from the Kansas Board of Regents to issue up to $100 million in debt to either build a new student housing facility or to purchase an existing apartment complex in Lawrence, according to documents filed ...
Workouts at Lawrence’s Red Dog Days have been known to hurt a little, but the one on the morning of Dec. 14 was particularly rude for local businessman Jeff Hatfield.
Hatfield arrived bright and early for the 6 a.m. community workout, and was greeted oddly by his friend, retired Lawrence fire chief Shaun Coffey.
Coffey said he was surprised to see Hatfield — given that one of his buildings was on fire. ...
Sen. Tom Holland would be fine going from Kansas politician to firearms pioneer.
As I’ve reported before, Holland — a rural Baldwin City Democrat — leads a Douglas County start-up company that hopes to become the first in the country to mass-produce and sell a new type of handgun that uses RFID technology to greatly reduce the odds of accidental shootings.
The company took its biggest step yet this ...
The largest land war in Europe since World War II is complicated in many regards, but the American public’s attitude about it should be very simple, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday in Lawrence.
“I believe everyone who wants to make America great can not allow Ukraine to be defeated,” Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s United Nations ambassador, told a Lawrence crowd at the Dole ...
A deal is in the works that may convert Lawrence’s longtime pop/rock radio station 105.9 FM to a Spanish-language radio station.
Kansas City’s largest Spanish language media company — Reyes Media Group — has signed a deal to purchase the 105.9 radio station from its Missouri-based owner for $2.25 million, according to filings made with the Federal Communications Commission.
The FCC filings do not ...
There’s a chance that when construction work on KU’s football stadium renovation concludes in August that the university will immediately start another major construction project to rebuild the east side with a hotel and other amenities.
But Chancellor Douglas Girod told me recently that there is no chance that KU will again ask the football team to play another season in Kansas City or elsewhere. ...
