Coffee has defeated sleep along a small portion of Lawrence’s south Iowa Street. The Arkansas-based chain 7 Brew Coffee has filed plans to build a new drive-thru coffee location at the site of a now defunct mattress store at 3231 Iowa St., which is next door to McDonalds and in front of ...

There are new signs that a large affordable housing apartment complex will develop in the heart of south Lawrence’s big box retail district. A site plan has been filed for an approximately 500-bedroom apartment complex at the southeast corner of 31st and Michigan streets, which is basically ...

For U.S. research universities, there might be only one ranking these days that matters — the number of good graces you have with the Trump administration. As we have reported, a Trump-directed policy change at the National Institutes of Health — regarding an administrative spending cap ...

If you want to be reckless in an ordinary crowded room, yell “fire.” If it is a room full of politicians, however, try yelling “taxes.” Indeed, there are some spirited tax debates — and maybe a couple of people fleeing for the exits — at the Kansas Legislature during its annual ...

Hiring freezes are a trend at major U.S. research universities, but KU hasn’t yet implemented one, a spokeswoman with the university told the Journal-World this week. But KU is sharing in the same worry that has led schools including Stanford, MIT and Northwestern to recently implement ...

On the one hand, the project is pretty straightforward: A landscape company wants to be able to locate its shop and its offices in one location. But that location makes the project more interesting than your typical landscaping venture. That location is right along the Kansas Turnpike — ...