In a summer full of orange construction cones, this surely will be the most welcome sight of the year on a Lawrence street. Shaboozey — owner of the current No. 1 song on the Hot 100 Billboard chart — will be in the middle of Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence for a free concert ...

Sam Zipper, a scientist at the KU-based Kansas Geological Survey, has no involvement in the big, controversial solar project that has been proposed for more than 600 acres of farmland in northern Douglas County. But he’s sure heard the debate it has created. On one side, supporters say ...

One of the largest — and oldest — banks in America has plans to open its first Lawrence branch. Chase Bank is seeking City Hall approval to open a bank branch at the northwest corner of 23rd Street and Naismith Drive in a building that formerly was occupied by Truity Credit Union. If ...

As the old saying goes, money talks — and when the amount is $4 billion, entire communities will stop what they are doing to listen. Indeed, the 2022 announcement that Panasonic was going to build a $4 billion, 4,000-job battery plant for electric vehicles in nearby De Soto made Lawrence ...

Future development around KU’s football stadium — currently undergoing a partial $450 million renovation to add a conference center and other amenities — has recently become more complicated. Soon, local governments may be asked to ease some of those complications by providing financial ...

For much of its more than 165-year history, there’s been a pretty straightforward, statistical rule in Douglas County: Lawrence has the bigger number. After all, for a long time now, Lawrence has had about 80% of Douglas County’s total population. So, unless the number was dealing with ...