The University of Kansas now has an updated plan — or in some cases, wish list — of major building projects it hopes to undertake in the next five years.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously approved new five-year capital improvement plans for KU and other state universities.
KU’s plan totals $1.06 billion worth of construction projects over the next five years on the Lawrence campus and ...
Massachusetts Street, it appears, is about to get a new Italian restaurant, but it will come at the expense of a local Mexican restaurant. (That’s as close to international business reporting as I get.)
Ta Co., the Mexican restaurant at the corner of Eighth and Massachusetts, has closed, but the owner of Ta Co. has published on the eatery’s website that the Italian restaurant Basil Leaf Café will be ...
Kansas' governor has vetoed planned tuition increases for the University of Kansas and other state universities, but KU leaders said they still expect to be able to fund a 5% wage increase for most employees.
“We will figure it out,” KU Chancellor Douglas Girod said in a brief interview with the Journal-World. “That is still our intent to figure out how to do that.”
KU leaders on Wednesday had planned ...
When Kwik Shop filed plans in August 2020 for a new store at 25th and Iowa streets, the result was one of Lawrence’s largest convenience stores literally bulldozed one of the city’s smallest — La Estrella Mexican tienda and taco stand.
That Kwik Shop at the northwest corner of 25th and Iowa is now largely complete, but the more interesting part of the story is the tiny La Estrella is far from done.
And ...
A KU design team has been selected for a national solar energy competition, and its entry will be a unique home in Kansas City, Kansas, that provides shelter to victims of domestic abuse.
The University of Kansas’ Dirt Work Studios is one of 14 teams selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.
Dirt Works Studio, which is part of KU’s School of Architecture & Design, ...
Picturing a recent University of Kansas graduate with a set of headphones on isn’t hard to do.
After all, how many dorm rooms or campus benches or corners of the library are populated by students with headphones doing everything from playing an online video game to listening to music?
But after graduation, life’s tunes have been known to change. Now picture that young KU graduate listening to Chinese — ...
