The site of a large, vacant office building has gone from being the proposed site for a new City Hall to being the proposed site for actual hallways — and bedrooms, kitchens and baths too.
An approximately 6-acre site northeast of Sixth and Iowa streets — for years it housed the call center for the student loan company Sallie Mae — was on the verge of being bought by the City of Lawrence in October to ...
There’s a new plan for the long-vacant Borders bookstore building in downtown Lawrence — and with this one, the most interesting details aren’t what would happen inside the building, but rather in its parking lot.
Row houses.
Lawrence businessman Adam Williams has filed plans at City Hall to build 15 row houses along the eastern edge of the Borders parking lot. The Borders building is near Seventh and ...
High school students in Lawrence don’t need to pack their moving bags quite yet.
Changes to the boundaries for Lawrence High and Free State aren’t likely to occur for the next school year, members of the district’s Boundary Advisory Committee were told at a meeting on Wednesday.
“We cannot make adjustments this year for enrollment next year,” Larry Englebrick, deputy superintendent for Lawrence ...
Lawrence in 2024 ended its three-year streak of declining homes sales and bested area communities in almost every measurable category.
The one category it didn’t, though, is the one you measure with your pocketbook.
Lawrence finished the year with the highest median selling price of homes, topping the metro areas of Kansas City, Wichita, Manhattan and Topeka, new numbers from across the state show. At ...
Three online graduate programs have received national top 10 rankings in a U.S. News & World Report released Monday.
KU’s online master’s in special education, its online MBA program, and its online master’s in education administration programs all were ranked in the top 10 in the publication’s 2025 Best Online Programs edition.
KU’s special education master’s ranked only behind the ...
Elementary schools across the state are about to get a large wave of new students — the teachers themselves.
More than 15,000 Kansas elementary school educators — everybody from teachers to counselors to principals — must get certified in new methods to teach reading to elementary students.
The stakes are high for teachers to get the new training: If they don’t complete the training — or pass a ...
