Lawrence City Hall budget-makers will take any good news they can these days. The city has about a $6.6 million budget hole to fill for its 2026 budget, and it already has implemented buyout plans for 20 employees, with more perhaps to come.
As the budget process gets ready to swing into high gear next month, the city got a little bit of good news in the form of recent sales tax collections, which are the ...
If you are still finding your way around the world of golf (don’t go more than chest-deep into the pond, lest it impact your backswing,) you may not know that there are a couple of different types of driving ranges.
There’s the traditional driving range where you put a ball on a tee, hit the ball, watch the ball, curse, and then repeat. But there’s also the high-tech driving range full of cameras, ...
Lawrence is in the business of giving young people a start — the biggest event of the year, after all, is named “commencement.”
Starter homes, though, not so much.
In fact, it is difficult to find a city that is worse at it, a new report suggests. The trade journal Construction Coverage found that just 18% of Lawrence residents under the age of 35 own a home in Lawrence. Only seven metro areas in the ...
As banks, investors and others prepared to come together last week to purchase nearly $55 million in bonds from Douglas County — essentially lending the county government money — they likely did a little reading on the county’s finances.
The credit rating agency Moody’s had put out a credit report on Douglas County government in advance of the bond sale, which will partially fund the construction of an ...
Plans have been filed for more than 200 apartments — totaling about 400 bedrooms — to be built along a portion of the golf course at the Jayhawk Club in west Lawrence.
City of Lawrence planners have received a preliminary development plan to convert a vacant 17-acre parcel just south of the main parking lot for the country club into a complex with 16 new apartment buildings and a clubhouse and pool for ...
If you squint, you can start to see the Lawrence real estate market getting a little easier for homebuyers. But don’t fully blink, as homes are still moving on and off the market very quickly.
Lawrence home sales in April were unchanged — 97 in total — from a year ago, according to the latest report from the Lawrence Board of Realtors. The more significant news, though, is on the pricing and availability ...
