Her position as chair of the Douglas County Commission is what got Karen Willey a seat on the stage Wednesday for a groundbreaking ceremony to expand the western leg of the South Lawrence Trafficway to four lanes.
But a piece of county business isn’t what first popped to mind for Willey when she thought of the approximately $170 million roadway project. Instead, the first thing she told the crowd assembled ...
Freshmen rule, and if you don’t believe it, the University of Kansas can point you to a new record.
Driven by a historically large freshmen class, KU has hit a new all-time high for enrollment, and currently is the fastest growing Regents university in the state, according to new figures released Wednesday.
KU’s fall enrollment — not counting the KU Medical Center — stood at 26,887 students. That’s ...
Reports of rape on the University of Kansas’ Lawrence campus fell in 2023, but allegations of stalking rose sharply and hit a new three-year high, according to a new campus security report.
KU officials on the Lawrence campus — anybody from police officers to counselors — received seven reports that alleged a rape took place on the KU campus. Officials received four additional reports of rape that were ...
We’re entering the fourth quarter. The game is on the line. We now know what we need to gain to grasp victory.
One, long . . . percentage point. (No, not a yard. This is not football. Why do you have a mouthpiece in?) We are talking about Lawrence sales tax collections, and indeed we have entered the fourth quarter of the year. It also is true that there is a bit at stake for the city of Lawrence and its ...
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The longtime downtown Lawrence restaurant Merchants Pub & Plate has been sold to a Kansas City-based restaurant group.
Merchants co-founder and chef TK Peterson confirmed in a brief conversation this morning that W. VinZant Restaurants has purchased the large restaurant that is located in a historic former bank building at 746 Massachusetts St.
"Merchants will remain ...
In a summer full of orange construction cones, this surely will be the most welcome sight of the year on a Lawrence street.
Shaboozey — owner of the current No. 1 song on the Hot 100 Billboard chart — will be in the middle of Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence for a free concert that is expected to draw thousands on Friday night.
“It is a really big deal,” Downtown Lawrence Inc. Director ...
