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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Updated 9:12 a.m. June 15, 2022 Maybe you already think downtown Lawrence has a wild side to it, but it appears it soon will have a much more visible one — complete with its own awning, sign and a not-so-subtle love of cannabis. Plans have been filed at Lawrence City Hall to convert a ...

I’m always on the lookout for a summer Blizzard in Lawrence. No, not the snowstorms. The frozen treat from Dairy Queen. (There is a lot less shovel work, unless you get the extra, extra large.) Now, I have half as many locations to find one. A labor shortage has temporarily shut down one of ...

A Missouri-based bank has reached a nearly $4 million deal to become the official bank of the University of Kansas. Central Bank of the Midwest, which has multiple locations in Lawrence and throughout the Kansas City metro region, will become KU’s “community banking partner” on Aug. 1, ...