Bring your hammers and saws to far west Lawrence. It is beginning to look like there will be years worth of building projects in the area. This week, city commissioners approved the annexation of 300 acres that could accommodate several hundred new homes west of the South Lawrence Trafficway. ...
The Lawrence school board next week will continue discussing its 2026-2027 budget and hear a report from staff about artificial intelligence. Few details on either topic were shared in the agenda for Monday's board meeting; no documents about them were attached as of Friday morning. But the ...
TOPEKA — The $1.25 billion biocontainment facility in Manhattan developed for cutting-edge research on the most dangerous animal diseases is not fully operational three years after its ribbon-cutting, a federal report determined. The Office of Inspector General published a July report ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals’ quest to move to a new downtown ballpark cleared a major hurdle on Wednesday when the Kansas City city council approved a $600 million commitment to help make it happen. The club announced in April that it planned to partner with Hallmark ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jurors on Thursday heard Duane "Keffe D" Davis tell detectives in 2008 that his nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson fired the shots that killed Tupac Shakur. Davis, who said in the interview that he was also in the car with Anderson, is accused of orchestrating the 1996 ...
Early in the 2027 budget process, Lawrence’s employee healthcare plan got a worrying diagnosis – the fund used to pay out benefits wasn't sustainable. City commissioners have known that for a while; in the city manager’s recommended budget that was released earlier this summer, about ...
