SALINA, Kansas— A JetBlue flight from New York to San Diego landed safely in Kansas after the crew received an alert about smoke in the cargo area, authorities said. The airline said it turned out to be a false alarm. Flight 1189, with about 130 people on board, departed Kennedy ...
Larned — Tom Giessel vividly remembers growing up in the 1960s as a Kansas farm kid on the High Plains. In his memories, this place that some refer to as “the middle of nowhere” was teeming with life. It was a place where nature and his family interacted directly. He viewed farming as ...
The financial future of college athletics is beyond murky, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod said as a legal settlement over how to pay student-athletes is at risk of collapsing. Ever since a federal judge two weeks ago expressed concerns about a proposed settlement in the House ...
The University of Kansas’ hope of winning $10 million in state funding to help spur an expansion of its architecture and design school has cleared one hurdle. The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday unanimously agreed to recommend the request to the Kansas Legislature when it convenes in ...
During the next 10 years the University of Kansas may be able to get rid of 20% of all of its building space on the Lawrence campus, according to KU’s recently completed master plan. In fact, the plan says if KU wants to remain financially and environmentally healthy, it needs to seriously ...
When it comes to issues of gender, sexuality, diversity and other such topics, there’s a new debate at the University of Kansas: Is there an evolution or an elimination underway? KU administrators last week announced a reorganization that will bring many individual KU offices related to ...