Updated at 1 p.m. Sunday
East Lawrence residents awoke to disbelief and grief Sunday morning as they discovered that someone had burned down a beloved community art installation at Ninth and Delaware Streets known as the Wishing Bench.
The installation had been at the corner in the Warehouse Arts District for years. It featured a "wishing" bench on a platform surrounded by decorations and other items that ...
Rod Kummer used to be a big runner — marathons, the whole bit. Now he's a big walker.
True, he's 70 and his joints aren't quite what they used to be, but that's not the main reason he has slowed his pace.
The main reason is a realization, shared by many in the wellness community, that walking is maybe the single best exercise for your body — and your spirit.
“There is probably no exercise that provides ...
Updated at 8:44 p.m. Thursday
The City of Lawrence has enlisted the eager assistance of goats to help weed a city park.
The Parks and Recreation Department is using about 50 goats in Prairie Park, 2730 Harper St., to assist with eradicating honeysuckle, which is an invasive plant. The program is intended to be a natural alternative to using herbicides.
Honeysuckle has overtaken an area of the park, crowding ...
Lawrence resident Julian Moreno did not follow the typical path from high school to accomplished scholar.
Instead of going straight to college, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, and a few years after that he married and started a family.
The uncommon path has taken longer, but it has led to uncommon success for Moreno, a 25-year-old University of Kansas student who recently won a prestigious Astronaut ...
Multiple fire crews and police vehicles responded to an afternoon fire at an apartment complex just east of The Oread hotel.
People at the scene, 1145 Louisiana St., indicated that a passerby sometime around 3 p.m. had seen flames erupting from a laundry room area at the basement level and shooting up to two stories above.
Zane Morgan, a battalion chief with Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical, told the ...
Every house, whether humble or grand, has a story.
Something about it is interesting: the way it was built, a thing that happened there, someone who lived there, someone who died there.
Krista Barbour knew this from owning her own 117-year-old house in Old West Lawrence, but it wasn’t until she started spending a lot of time outdoors during the coronavirus pandemic that it truly dawned on her how many of ...
