A Lawrence business is more than doubling the size of its space after recognizing a surprising trend — cross-stitch has cross-over appeal. The needle and thread craft of cross stitch — long considered the domain of an older generation — has become quite popular with younger women. Now a ...
No matter who wins USA Today’s contest for best brewpub this year, Free State Brewing Company founder Chuck Magerl thinks there’s a title they all deserve: “third place.” Not the kind of “third place” his brewery won in the contest last year, though. The “third place” that ...
Two drivers were seriously injured early Wednesday morning in a crash on U.S. Highway 40 several miles northwest of Lawrence. Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokesman George Diepenbrock said in an email that deputies were dispatched to the crash at the intersection of U.S. Highway 40 and East ...
Lawrence city leaders at their meeting Tuesday gave their consent to the sale of Hamm Landfill to a nationwide waste disposal company. The commission voted 4-0, with Commissioner Mike Dever absent, to authorize City Manager Craig Owens to sign letters of consent to the sale of Hamm Landfill ...
City leaders took a step forward Tuesday on an incentive package for an affordable housing project that would create 121 units of affordable housing in western Lawrence. At its regular meeting, the Lawrence City Commission voted 3-1, with Vice Mayor Mike Courtney opposed and commissioner Mike ...
State law requires residents of a county to be notified of a lot of different legal matters that are underway at any given time. That includes pending foreclosures of homes, new ordinances proposed by local governments, legal name changes of your neighbors, and even the sales that dispose of ...
