Bel Aire News

Northeast Magnet High School in Wichita, set to close this year when its program moves to a new building, will reopen in the fall as the new home of Metro-Boulevard Alternative High School.

Home builders are starting to see signs of recovery as more and more buyers take advantage of low interest rates, low prices, and an increasing number of incentive packages offered by municipalities in the Wichita area.

Jason Ronk, left, and Scott Lehner of Perfection Builders show the 27-acre parcel they're buying from the city of Bel Aire for a 97-unit development of courtyard homes.

School board members still have to decide whether and how to build a proposed new high school in southeast Wichita.