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There’s much to count during the holiday season. Blessings, of course, but also pennies — as in how many of them I can save when filling up my gas tank after all this Christmas traveling. If you are that same type of counter, here are a few facts and figures to know on Kansas gas prices before you fire up the Christmas cruiser. All are from AAA Kansas, which ...
Updated at 3:25 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23
A pair of Kansas lawmakers intends to introduce federal legislation that would strip control of Haskell Indian Nations University from the Bureau of Indian Education and let the university govern itself while still receiving federal funding.
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kan., on Monday released a draft piece of legislation that would allow ...
Plans for a Braum’s restaurant in Lawrence may be delayed, but that doesn’t mean we have to pause the expansion of our waistbands. While I reported earlier this week that the hamburger and ice cream chain said it doesn’t have plans in either 2025 or 2026 to develop the northwest Lawrence site it owns, that is not a sign that other fast food restaurants aren’t looking at Lawrence.
In fact, interest is ...
The University of Kansas has been chosen to run one of seven centers across the state that will help both teachers and parents learn how to help children read better.
Now, KU has to figure out exactly where it will locate this new center that likely will employ about 10 professionals who are experts in the “science of reading.” The center doesn’t have to be on the KU campus, and it will be designed to ...
There is a truism in college football: When it is time to watch the games, the couch should already be in place. The University of Kansas is seeking permission to change its upcoming school calendar, in part, to make it so.
KU leaders want to start the university’s fall semester one week early, beginning next year. The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday will consider approving the request that would start ...
There’s an old saying about all of us screaming for ice cream. Now, I’m wondering whether some of us will cry about it too, given the latest news from the ice cream and fast food chain Braum’s.
As we reported all the way back in May 2023, the Oklahoma-based chain bought property in northwest Lawrence and filed plans to locate one of its hamburger and ice cream shops in Lawrence. The development, though, ...
