A lawsuit regarding a large solar project is heading back to Douglas County District Court, but now there are questions about whether the county may act on the controversial development before new county commissioners are seated in January.
A federal judge on Monday ruled that a lawsuit filed by area businesses and neighbors protesting the Kansas Sky Energy Center should be heard in Douglas County District ...
Get ready for the Whataburger line.
The fast food chain has confirmed via press release that it will open its first Lawrence location at 11 a.m. on Monday, at 707 W. 23rd St.
The Journal-World reported earlier this month that Monday was when the company hoped to open the restaurant, but that it may also have to delay the opening for a week while it was completing training.
That training has progressed and ...
Jack Thimesch, county commissioner in Kingman County, will tell you what the biggest threat is to the future of wind energy. It is not the Audubon Society, it is not the Farm Bureau, it is not even Big Oil.
Rather, the county commissioner who has three wind farms in his county and one more under construction, said the biggest threat is Facebook, and the ease with which it spreads misinformation. Such ...
Sometimes a big bet involves pushing all your cash into the middle of the table. But here’s a twist: Sometimes it involves forsaking all cash.
The Kansas Turnpike Authority has indeed done the latter. KTA has invested about $100 million in converting the state’s turnpike system into one that no longer accepts cash tolls.
And the authority is now betting big on Lawrence to make that cashless system work. ...
News and notes from around town:
— Usually RVs and dump trucks don’t mingle, but they might for the next few years in far west Lawrence.
Plans have been filed with the Lawrence-Douglas County planning office for a major construction landfill and borrow site for the South Lawrence Trafficway expansion. The facility is proposed to be near the entrance of Clinton State Park, where the bulk of the lake’s ...
When it comes to maps and elections, I suspect most of you are just looking for one that shows the quickest path to the finish line.
That’s not what I have today, but I do have another interesting map and numbers about whether Lawrence should change its form of city government to one that creates four new Lawrence City Commission districts.
As a reminder, voters are deciding that question — which also ...
