Downtown Lawrence Inc. — the nonprofit responsible for promoting the downtown district — has been without a director since July, and likely won’t resume the search for one for several more months. One reason a new leader hasn’t been hired, members of the association were told ...
Visitors of Allen Fieldhouse already know one thing they are supposed to be on the lookout for: The Phog. (Technically, “beware” is the proper terminology.) Soon, keep your eyes open for something else. Happy hour drink specials. By the end of this summer, the venerable Allen Fieldhouse ...
It has been a slow start to a new year in Lawrence. Retail sales in the first quarter of the year are down in Lawrence compared to a year ago, and numbers from the Kansas Department of Revenue show Lawrence is the only major retail market in the state to have posted such a decline. Reasons ...
If there is one question that may get asked as often as “how can there be so many taco places in Lawrence,” it might be “how can there be so many coffee shops in Lawrence?” I’m not sure I have the answer, but I do have a new twist on the questions: “What happens when a coffee shop ...
What Kansas and its fans consider a rough patch is evidently different than at other basketball programs, many of which would be delighted to receive a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament, as KU did in 2025 in the worst season of Bill Self’s tenure as head coach. That’s not to say that other ...
Douglas County officially was on the decline last year. The county posted a small, but rare, drop in population in 2025, according to new estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday. Douglas County also was unique in one regard: It was the only urban county in the state that ...
