Kansas Athletics plans to take on $115 million in new debt to cover construction work that currently is underway on the university’s football stadium, a KU official has confirmed. That’s a big number, but perhaps not the most surprising number coming out of the football stadium project ...
Small is the word of the year in the Lawrence housing industry. Nowhere is that more evident than in the reports showing how many new single-family homes have been built in Lawrence. The community is on pace to set a new low for single-family building starts, which would be the second time in ...
The 10-year anniversary of Rock Chalk Park comes with its own type of gift: a property tax bill of about half a million dollars. Since its opening in 2014, the northwest Lawrence sports complex that houses a track, soccer pitch, softball field and other facilities for the University of Kansas ...
Workouts at Lawrence’s Red Dog Days have been known to hurt a little, but the one on the morning of Dec. 14 was particularly rude for local businessman Jeff Hatfield. Hatfield arrived bright and early for the 6 a.m. community workout, and was greeted oddly by his friend, retired Lawrence ...
Sen. Tom Holland would be fine going from Kansas politician to firearms pioneer. As I’ve reported before, Holland — a rural Baldwin City Democrat — leads a Douglas County start-up company that hopes to become the first in the country to mass-produce and sell a new type of handgun that ...
A deal is in the works that may convert Lawrence’s longtime pop/rock radio station 105.9 FM to a Spanish-language radio station. Kansas City’s largest Spanish language media company — Reyes Media Group — has signed a deal to purchase the 105.9 radio station from its Missouri-based ...