A local business has opened a boba tea shop at Lawrence’s Central Station. Boba & Beyond opened this week on a “soft launch” schedule, according to a news release from the city. The menu offers boba tea — a cold, tea-based drink that contains milk, tapioca pearls and a variety of ...

For years, multimodal transportation advocate Bill Steele says, Lawrence has lagged behind some of its peers on bike infrastructure. It's spent more money on projects for cars, he said, and its streets are "overbuilt." But he and other members of the Sustainability Action Network think they ...

The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission unanimously voted to find a proposed $300 million development project around KU’s football stadium meets the city’s goals for development. The commissioners voted Monday that the second phase of KU’s Gateway project, which would add a ...

Multiple local groups will host more than a dozen candidates for the Lawrence City Commission in a “speed campaign event” ahead of the primary election later this summer. The League of Women Voters of Lawrence-Douglas County, NAACP Lawrence Kansas Branch and Lawrence/Douglas County Chapter ...

Although the Lawrence Farmers Market is the longest-running one in the state — operating since 1976 — it has never had its own permanent site. The market has been held in a handful of places in downtown Lawrence before settling in 2007 at its current location, the parking lot at 824 New ...

UPDATED: 7:25 P.M. JUNE 18 Federal officials are warning that Lawrence’s airport is at risk of losing access to all federal grants, which would end a multimillion-dollar funding stream used by the city to maintain and expand the airport. City officials received a formal notice in April ...