One of the largest KC-area car dealers has just purchased an auto dealership with a half-century history in Lawrence.
That longtime Lawrence dealership is Dale Willey Chevrolet and GMC at 2840 Iowa St., and the dealer it sold to is Cable Dahmer, which now owns nine dealerships in and around the Kansas City metro area. You might recall that in 2025, Cable Dahmer bought the Lawrence Kia dealership at 1225 E. ...
More layers of approvals, including multiple public hearings, would be required for data center developments in Lawrence under a proposed change to the city's land use code that the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission recommended on Monday.
The Planning Commission voted 6-1, with Commissioner Gary Rexroad opposed, to recommend a text amendment to the code that would require any future data center ...
In 12 years of showing her pottery at Art in the Park, Melanie Harvey has some ideas of what the people want to see.
They want the chicken band. They want the T. rex on the drums, or the cat on the bicycle – the “classic characters” she came up with, inspired by people she knows and things in her life.
And the best part is, they don’t just want to look – they want to buy.
“A lot of places will ...
Rather than bypassing downtown's busiest streets by going along the railroad tracks and through the Riverfront Mall site, the Lawrence Loop trail might be routed down Seventh and New Hampshire streets.
That's according to recommendations in a draft report from Trekk Design Group on how to close the downtown segment of the trail network, one of the few legs yet to be completed. The report is set to be discussed ...
One of the organizations named in a lawsuit over alleged hazing and “torture techniques” at a University of Kansas fraternity house has filed its response to the allegations, denying that it had any control over what went on at the chapter.
The lawsuit was filed in July in Douglas County District Court against multiple organizations and individuals associated with the University of Kansas chapter of Delta ...
He’s getting older and a little slower; he’s walking a bit stiffer, but Lawrence Police Department dog Shadow still has what it takes to be a champ.
Shadow, age 7, proved that over the weekend at the third annual K-9 Games in Topeka, where he took first place in the “Keyless Entry” contest, a kind of agility course for police dogs. And his handler, Cpl. Josh Doncouse, said he does it not for a treat or ...
