News and notes from around town: — The day is likely coming that you could travel from the east side of town to the west side of town and have a piece of Casey’s pizza the whole way. And, of course, this in no way involves eating more slowly. Rather, there are signs that a ...

If pigs could fly ... they still might not be as indispensable as the one inside the bathroom of Footprints, the longtime Lawrence shoe store on south Massachusetts Street. That pig — a tile version on the bathroom wall — has a toilet paper dispenser hanging out of its rear end. Soon, ...

UPDATED 9:25 P.M. AUG. 11 They say football is a game of inches. So too, is an approximately $750 million redevelopment of KU’s football stadium, as evidenced by the thickness of the legal documents governing the project. There’s a big — 262 pages — and important document up for ...

I have never gotten excited about the phrase “Christmas in July” because it usually has ended with a touch of heat stroke after cutting down a pine tree in the Kansas heat. But City Hall officials may be appreciative of the phrase about now. The state’s July sales tax report showed a ...

A publicly-traded company that provides all sorts of “smart home” technology, has filed plans to convert a long-vacant building in downtown Lawrence into a new office home for about 70 of its high-tech, high-paid employees. The Nasdaq-traded tech firm Alarm.com is seeking financial ...

Soon, the vote counting will begin in the Lawrence City Commission race. But as is the case in nearly all elections, the money counting begins even earlier, and we now have our first look at where the candidates stand in terms of campaign contributions heading into Tuesday’s primary ...