If you own a Lawrence or Douglas County home that is rented through Airbnb, Vrbo or other such sites, get ready for a booking you may not like much — a doubling of your property tax bills. The Douglas County Appraiser’s office recently sent a letter to nearly 200 such homeowners that ...

After 18 months of traffic-snarling construction on 23rd Street, we probably could have some fun with the old riddle of “why did the chicken cross the road.” I’ll let you come up with your own answer on that. My message today is to future chickens and hungry diners: Crossing chickens ...

Downtown Lawrence’s nearly 15 years without a pharmacy and drugstore ended a couple of weeks ago. Already, you are starting to see downtown Lawrence change in small ways. One such small (but not trivial) way: toilet paper. On Friday, while I was at the newly opened Sigler Medical Arts ...

You know what they say about a kid in a candy store. He’ll either bounce off the wall or stick to it. (On second thought, maybe that is just what they said about me, and why we didn’t often stop at one.) No, the more conventional saying has something to do with all the joy and happiness ...

A couple of news and notes from around town: Given that the weather felt like 40-below zero not long ago, perhaps few people noticed that a new Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop planned for 23rd Street was taking a long time to open. But I did, because I absolutely still ate ice cream even when ...

The highly caffeinated “bros” are coming to Lawrence. Dutch Bros. Coffee has filed plans with Lawrence City Hall to build a new drive-thru coffee shop along south Iowa Street. The shop will be the first in Lawrence for the West Coast company, and it will be taking a spot that once was set ...