There are a multitude of reasons that more than 100 women planned to land their aircraft at Lawrence Regional Airport on Wednesday and Thursday.
There is the sightseeing that goes with traveling to a new part of the country. There’s the skill-building that goes with flying an aircraft through the wind and the clouds. There’s the stereotype-busting that goes with pretty much being a female pilot at all ...
It is no secret that home values are soaring in Douglas County. What may be less understood is how property taxes across the county may rise as a result of those higher home values.
Well, we now have an estimate we can share. If Douglas County and the four cities in the county simply leave their tax rates unchanged from a year ago, those governments will collect more than $14 million in new property taxes this ...
Rising mortgage interest rates may be cooling off half of Lawrence’s housing market, but it probably isn’t the half many people would prefer. The number of homes sold in Lawrence declined significantly in May, but the selling prices of those homes continued to increase.
Lawrence homes sales in May fell by 11% compared to May 2021, according to the latest report from the Lawrence Board of Realtors. For the ...
As a college student, there is one piece of advice (perhaps more) that is almost always flawed — the information from your adviser about which classes will transfer to your new college.
The Kansas Board of Regents last week passed what some billed as a “historic” new policy that aims to nearly eliminate the now-common situation of Kansas students planning to transfer to another in-state school, only to ...
Lawrence recently has gotten some love from Forbes, the national business magazine. Lawrence landed on the publication’s 2022 list for the best places in the U.S. to retire. Not only did it show up on the online list, but it was highlighted in Forbes’ print magazine, which still has a circulation of about 5 million readers.
A recent issue has a picture of downtown Lawrence under a headline of “Kickin’ ...
Universities in Kansas will have $19 million more to spend on scholarships for students in financial need next school year, and public universities will get a greater share of it than they have previously.
The $19 million increase means there will be more than double the amount of state financial aid available to students than historically has been the case. In past years, the state has provided $15 million to ...
