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Lawrence Beauty Brands to close later this month
Beauty Brands will permanently close later this month after nearly three decades in business in Lawrence.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Lawrence Beauty Brands to close later this month
Beauty Brands will permanently close later this month after nearly three decades in business in Lawrence.
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August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Lawrence City Commission to consider hiking tax on hotel stays
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday will consider increasing the special tax that applies to hotel stays in hopes of capitalizing on an influx of World Cup visitors.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Lawrence City Commission to vote on tax incentives for KU stadium project; neighbors and an expert have concerns
As Lawrence city commissioners prepare to vote on a massive tax incentive package for KU’s Gateway Project, neighbors say a required community input process was not completed, and an expert says STAR bonds can be a gamble.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Downtown Lawrence’s latest attraction is a surfeit of skunks; Love Garden prints stinker stickers
It would appear that downtown now shares an unofficial but odorous mammalian mascot: a skunk. To celebrate, Love Garden made stickers of the stinker.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Less than a year from World Cup, Lawrence officials prepare for impacts on housing, safety, transit
Officials are working to ensure Lawrence can capitalize on the expected influx of visitors for the 2026 World Cup in Kansas City without impacting necessary everyday services for local residents.
Evergy receives Missouri approval to build gas plants, solar farms after Kansas thumbs up
Missouri utility regulators on Thursday approved Evergy’s request to build three natural gas plants and two solar farms, freeing the company to move forward with infrastructure projects that will cost more than $2.75 billion.
Maya Hodison/Lawrence Times
KC ice cream shop franchise coming to west Lawrence
A Lawrence business owner plans to open a franchise of Kansas City-based ice cream shop Betty Rae’s this fall in west Lawrence.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Lawrence vendor market to center Black, Indigenous and people of color entrepreneurs
Black and brown entrepreneurs will sell and promote goods and services at an upcoming Lawrence vendor market.
Federal energy policy u-turn, planned gas plants put Kansans at risk, expert says
The future of green energy is challenged almost daily by federal decisions that affect the Kansas utility industry, according to an environmentalist who has spent most of her career focused on practical solutions to climate and energy challenges.
Historic Resources Commission approves demolition of former Jayhawk Bookstore building
Demolition of the former Jayhawk Bookstore building at Crescent Road and Naismith Drive could get underway as soon as next week with the approval of the Historic Resources Commission.
Panasonic’s vision for massive Kansas battery plant becomes reality with grand opening
Hundreds from around the world gathered Monday to celebrate the grand opening of the Panasonic electric vehicle battery plant in De Soto and tour the 4.7 million-square-foot facility that claims the tag of the state’s biggest economic development project ever.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
A view of Lawrence: Downtown on Friday
Two store kitties celebrated their gotcha day, the library’s summer book sale got underway, Remi the adoptable dog got to go for a walk and more Friday in downtown Lawrence.
Tom Harper/Lawrence Times
KU Endowment seeks to demolish former Jayhawk Bookstore building to make way for business hub
KU Endowment is looking to demolish the building that formerly housed Jayhawk Bookstore and McLain’s Market on KU’s campus to make room for the business school’s new entrepreneurship hub.
Panasonic to delay production at Kansas battery plant as electric car sales decline, policies shift
Panasonic is delaying full production in its De Soto battery plant because of dropping electric car sales and U.S. policies that do not support electric cars, international media reports.
Kansas regulators approve Evergy natural gas plants, solar plant despite rate concerns
The Kansas Corporation Commission gave Evergy the go-ahead to build two natural gas plants and a new solar plant, over the objections of multiple parties.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Fresh Cut Smoothies to open in downtown Lawrence with community recipes, concoctions for all palates
Daniel Luckey has worked in restaurants all over the downtown strip. Now, he’s channeling his decades of service industry experience into opening a grab-and-go-style smoothie and juice shop in the 800 block of Mass.
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