Rumors may say otherwise, but gasoline storage tanks at Casey’s General Store in Marion are not leaking, according to Kansas Department of Health and Environment. For several weeks, fuel pumps at ...

Fourteen work as cashier-bagger duos. The store places one person at each register solely to bag. It may look a bit silly on slow days but improves transaction speed significantly when the store is ...

Peabody’s 104th annual ground display fireworks extravaganza may be the most dramatic display in the county, but it’s not the only fireworks show people can see this weekend.

The oldest living former governor of Kansas, John Carlin, was elected to two terms. He concluded his second term in January, 1987. By that August, he was my professor at Wichita State University.

After serving as ambulance director for a year and interim director repeated times, Chuck Kenney is glad county commissioners appointed a new interim ambulance director Monday. Commissioners appointed ...

Loose dogs are a difficult issue to discuss. But like wind farms and DUIs, the issue is persistent, an itch that won’t go away. Two weeks ago, five separate incidents involving loose dogs were ...

Ground was broken Tuesday for a Hillsboro housing development a year and a half in the making. Orchard Ridge will be a 24-unit affordable-housing project south of Dollar General. It is being developed ...

New as well as used balers and swathers are doing well at KanEquip. “I hope it keeps raining for the soybeans and corn crops,” he said. Both G&R Implement and KanEquip sell an assortment of brands and ...

Salem Home in Hillsboro will see its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system upgraded after city council members approved up to $2.5 million in industrial revenue bonds Monday. Salem ...

Rain discolored and shrank the mature grain. County extension agent Rickey Roberts was more measured in his comments, calling the wheat quality “pretty average.” ...

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Quarter-sized hail fell Saturday at Hillsboro, damaging cars at dealerships there. Randy Hagen, office manager and former owner at Hillsboro Ford, said an insurance adjuster already has inspected car ...