The University of Kansas set a new record for research dollars last year, and the latest comprehensive figures show KU is close to becoming one of the 60 most active research universities in the U.S.. KU — both on the Lawrence campus and its Kansas City medical center — received and ...
Gen X’ers stretch those index fingers, and try to remember your middle initial. Yes, an honest-to-goodness, video game arcade from your youth is slated to open in downtown Lawrence. The same operators who have opened an indoor mini-golf business and an ax-throwing venue at 722 Massachusetts ...
Perhaps fans of a certain California winery may remember its 1970s commercials with the tagline of “We will sell no wine before its time.” (Or perhaps you were really big fans and don’t remember the commercials . . . or the decade.) Regardless, the saying may also apply to ice cream and ...
Lawrence homes sales grew for the second consecutive year, according to 2025 totals, but selling prices didn’t grow nearly as fast as in past years. In fact, Lawrence median selling prices grew by the slowest rate in the region. All told, it was a bit of an odd year for the Lawrence real ...
The sun has set on an idea to use the former Sunrise Garden center as a 200-plus-space parking lot for a proposed apartment complex about a mile away in the Oread neighborhood. Lawrence businessman Doug Compton told me he recently canceled his contract to buy the former Sunrise Garden Center ...
News and notes from around town: ••• Perhaps you know the feeling: On Valentine’s Day chocolate and flowers sometimes suffice, while other years a piece of jewelry might be in order. Then there are those years where circumstances suggest — is that the right word — that something ...