UPDATED 2:25 P.M. JUNE 27
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod will receive a 12% pay increase for the new budget year that begins in July, pushing his total salary to $1 million when both state and private funds are combined.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Friday approved salary increases ranging from 4% to 12% for the leaders of the state’s six public universities.
At a special meeting on ...
Anybody who remembers the approximately 20-year effort to win approval for the South Lawrence Trafficway project, likely recalls there’s a formula to the process — first the bureaucrats, then the bulldozers.
That formula still holds, which means this was a big week for an approximately $1.2 billion project that eventually will widen Kansas Highway 10 in Johnson County to six lanes. The project won a key ...
Even as a city grew up around it — and a 2018 fire nearly destroyed it — a site just east of 23rd and Haskell has served as a John Deere dealership for decades. By Friday evening that will come to an end.
A manager with Heritage Tractor confirmed the company is shutting down its Lawrence store, 1110 E. 23rd St., at 5 p.m. on Friday. The company is keeping other area stores open, including its large store ...
In a world of uncertainty, longtime Lawrence developer Doug Compton thinks he’s got one thing figured out: If you are waiting for interest rates to return to their historic lows of 3%, you are going to wait a long time.
“I don’t think you will ever see 3% again,” Compton said of interest rates that are closer to 7% for home loans and many times higher for commercial projects. “You might see 5% again. ...
Lawrence-based CEK Insurance has had a hectic month, completing a pair of deals to buy a competing agency and to purchase a downtown Lawrence building that will become the new headquarters for the firm.
The firm has some history with tough tasks, though. The company was founded in 1931, which, if you are scoring along at home, means the company started a financial services firm during the Great Depression. It ...
UPDATED: 7:25 P.M. JUNE 18
Federal officials are warning that Lawrence’s airport is at risk of losing access to all federal grants, which would end a multimillion-dollar funding stream used by the city to maintain and expand the airport.
City officials received a formal notice in April that a more than year-long investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration has preliminarily determined the city and ...
