Lawrence homes sales grew for the second consecutive year, according to 2025 totals, but selling prices didn’t grow nearly as fast as in past years. In fact, Lawrence median selling prices grew by the slowest rate in the region.
All told, it was a bit of an odd year for the Lawrence real estate market. On one hand, there were signs of strength in the market. Lawrence home sales totaled an even 1,000 sales, ...
The sun has set on an idea to use the former Sunrise Garden center as a 200-plus-space parking lot for a proposed apartment complex about a mile away in the Oread neighborhood.
Lawrence businessman Doug Compton told me he recently canceled his contract to buy the former Sunrise Garden Center at 15th and Learnard Avenue. However, Compton has not canceled his plans to build a dense, 300-bedroom apartment complex ...
The Douglas County Spelling Bee always comes down to letters, but you couldn’t be blamed for taking note of a certain number when it appeared at Saturday’s event.
Maci Perrins entered the lobby of Billy Mills Middle School on Saturday morning to check in for the event that features the top spellers from each elementary and middle school in the county. Like all the contestants, she was asked to draw a ...
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Perhaps you know the feeling: On Valentine’s Day chocolate and flowers sometimes suffice, while other years a piece of jewelry might be in order. Then there are those years where circumstances suggest — is that the right word — that something a bit more extravagant is in order.
A complete kitchen makeover? A bath remodel? A new swimming pool? If that is your ...
A bill that would further tighten how universities could teach diversity, equity and inclusion topics in the classroom was scheduled to get a key vote in the Kansas House on Wednesday, but the hearing never materialized.
On Thursday, an assistant with the House Education Committee told the Journal-World a hearing on HB 2428 — often known as the Freedom from Indoctrination Act — did not get either a ...
Tuition may be frozen and tenure may be broken.
Those are two of the bigger issues that leaders at the University of Kansas and the state’s other universities are watching as the Kansas Legislature enters a critical period for new laws that would impact higher education.
One proposal that is working its way through the Kansas House would cut about $18 million from the operating and student aid budgets of ...
