As Costco gets ready to build a major gas station as part of its development in northwest Lawrence, Walmart has filed plans to build a gas station of its own in southeast Lawrence.
Walmart has filed plans with Lawrence City Hall to build a convenience store and fueling station in a portion of the parking lot that serves the Walmart store on south Iowa Street.
The plans show the convenience store and fueling ...
University of Kansas leaders Thursday firmly rejected a set of employee raises proposed by KU’s faculty union, bringing the two sides ever closer to a formal impasse that could lead to a forced settlement in the labor dispute.
A lead attorney for KU’s negotiating team formally rejected all of the pay plans proposed by the faculty’s union, United Academics of KU. In a Thursday letter to the union, KU ...
The University of Kansas set a new record for research dollars last year, and the latest comprehensive figures show KU is close to becoming one of the 60 most active research universities in the U.S..
KU — both on the Lawrence campus and its Kansas City medical center — received and spent $610 million in research funding during the last fiscal year, which topped last year’s record-setting total by ...
Gen X’ers stretch those index fingers, and try to remember your middle initial. Yes, an honest-to-goodness, video game arcade from your youth is slated to open in downtown Lawrence.
The same operators who have opened an indoor mini-golf business and an ax-throwing venue at 722 Massachusetts Street now plan to open a video game arcade in the basement of the large building.
“We intend to have 50 to 60 ...
Lawrence homes sales grew for the second consecutive year, according to 2025 totals, but selling prices didn’t grow nearly as fast as in past years. In fact, Lawrence median selling prices grew by the slowest rate in the region.
All told, it was a bit of an odd year for the Lawrence real estate market. On one hand, there were signs of strength in the market. Lawrence home sales totaled an even 1,000 sales, ...
The sun has set on an idea to use the former Sunrise Garden center as a 200-plus-space parking lot for a proposed apartment complex about a mile away in the Oread neighborhood.
Lawrence businessman Doug Compton told me he recently canceled his contract to buy the former Sunrise Garden Center at 15th and Learnard Avenue. However, Compton has not canceled his plans to build a dense, 300-bedroom apartment complex ...
