Costco has filed for a nearly $22 million building permit at Lawrence City Hall, the latest sign that its plans to build a store near Rock Chalk Park in northwest Lawrence remain on track. The building permit, which was filed with the city one week ago, also may get us closer to a starter’s ...

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 ...

There’s the smell of a national championship in the air in Lawrence. Yes, the KU men’s basketball team has been making the nets pop a bit more regularly, but the national championship vibe comes from an even more reliable activity in Lawrence — the popping of a cold Budweiser. ...

Among the states in the middle of America, Kansas has been the slowest growing since the start of this decade. New Census data released on Tuesday confirmed that remains the case for the Sunflower State. It also shows why. No, it is not that there are more deaths in the state than births. ...

I can attest that there was a time in Lawrence where “money management skills” meant figuring out how to pay for seven cover charges and still have enough money left for a week’s worth of Ramen. Apparently, Lawrence’a management prowess has evolved since then because the community ...

One of Lawrence’s largest accounting and wealth management firms has sold a part of its business to an Atlanta-based company that is looking to expand into Kansas. Lawrence’s SSC CPAs + Advisors has agreed to sell its wealth management division to Atlanta-based Merit Financial Advisors. ...