Kevin Barry

One of downtown Kansas City's oldest buildings is getting ready to start helping the culinary students of the future.

A new effort to address the constant problem of affordable housing is making its first splash in Johnson County in the form

Cleveland city officials held a groundbreaking Monday for a major new trail project in the heart of the city.

One of the region’s newest employers is just starting what will be a massive hiring campaign to eventually bring on roughly 4,000 people to work inside Panasonic’s EV Battery Plant.

Home builders and environmental advocates are both waiting to see what could happen next for Kansas City, Missouri’s building codes

The Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) field campaign included deployment of a suite of atmospheric measurements in January-February 2022 with the goal of better understanding atmospheric processes and pollution under cold and dark conditions in Fairbanks, Alaska. We report on measurements of particle composition, particle size, ice nucleating particle (INP) composition, and INP size during an ice fog period (29 January-3 February). During this period, coarse particulate matter (PM 10 ) concentrations increased by 150% in association with a decrease in air temperature, a stronger temperature inversion, and relatively stagnant conditions. Results also show a 18%-78% decrease in INPs during the ice fog period, indicating that particles had activated into the ice fog via nucleation. Peroxide and heat treatments performed on INPs indicated that, on average, the largest contributions to the INP population were heat-labile (potentially biological, 63%), organic (31%), then inorganic (likely dust, 6%). Measurements of levoglucosan and bulk and single-particle composition corroborate the presence of dust and aerosols from combustion sources. Heat-labile and organic INPs decreased during the peak period of the ice fog, indicating those were preferentially activated, while inorganic INPs increased, suggesting they remained as interstitial INPs. In general, INP concentrations were unexpectedly high in Fairbanks compared to other locations in the Arctic during winter. The fact that these INPs likely facilitated ice fog formation in Fairbanks has implications for other high latitude locations subject to the hazards associated with ice fog.

Lenexa’s new justice center gave the police department a chance to redesign multiple aspects of how the building works, installing new features that reflect the modern best-practices while al…

Millions of federal grant money and $1 million from KC Parks is helping residents figure out what should happen at Bruce Watkins Connector Park

The project would take over what’s now open greenspace where Harrison Street curves into East 4th Street.

The Urbavore Urban Farm took a first step towards getting a new master plan approved that would address neighborhood concerns.