For the leader of the Ballard Center, the noise of kids playing in one of the North Lawrence nonprofit’s two outdoor playgrounds was a fitting backdrop to a groundbreaking ceremony for a new building addition on Thursday. The adults, meanwhile, were squeezed into the smaller of the two ...

You might be tempted to look to the football field when identifying the biggest success story of 2023 at the University of Kansas. A new set of numbers suggests you might want to look to the laboratory instead. Research funding at KU increased by more than 20% last year, its largest increase ...

Health care data hacks continue to make the news, and they’re happening close to home. You don’t have to look any farther than Liberty Hospital in Kansas City. On Dec. 19, 2023, the hospital announced it was experiencing a “communications systems outage,” which was later confirmed to be ...

Stan Hernly knows the possibilities of old homes. After all, he started his Lawrence architecture practice in an old home along Tennessee Street. It was more than 35 years ago that he founded his architecture practice, Hernly Associates, in that 1907 house, and since then the firm has grown ...

Not every street is like Wall Street. There, occupants are never very far from a daily ticker — or metaphors of bulls and bears — measuring prosperity or decline for those in the financial industry. But on Massachusetts Street and elsewhere in Lawrence, high finance isn’t the engine ...