Even if your family watches the Bing Crosby classic “White Christmas” every year, the stage version, opening Friday at Theatre Lawrence, might still have something new for you to unwrap. One of its gifts to director Joshua Shockey was a classic song he’d never heard before – one from ...
You can’t miss the chimney at the corner of 15th and Learnard. For almost 100 years, it’s stuck out from what would become the Barker Neighborhood. “It was there before that part of Lawrence was part of the city,” former planning commissioner Jim Carpenter told the Journal-World on ...
Douglas County commissioners delayed action in awarding $1 million in funding to the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center to support Treatment & Recovery Center operations in 2026. The request was to support the TRC’s ongoing costs, including staffing, program operations and ...
TOPEKA — As a representative of 60 mostly rural Kansas counties, U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann said road safety is not an abstract policy concept. “For me, it’s personal,” the Republican said in recorded remarks at a Wednesday news conference by Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. Kansas ...
Multiple parking lots around KU’s campus will close permanently as construction for the second phase of the school’s Gateway District will start later this month. The school shared in an email to students, staff and faculty that parking lots 92, 94 and 97 — three lots located just east ...
A Wichita-based developer is pursuing more than $1 billion worth of new projects both south and west of Lawrence — with a $50 million soccer/sports complex and 700 acres of residential development topping the list. Phil Bundy, a Wichita entrepreneur who has led a host of retail and ...
