Two Hillsboro city council members were sworn in for new terms at a council meeting Tuesday evening. Both Byron McCarty and Jeff Jorgenson were reelected after having run unopposed for their positions ...

A wheatgrass 21 years in development is taking root in Marion County and surrounding fields. Kernza, developed by the Land Institute in Salina, has made its way into small niche markets. It is used in ...

A week after an ice storm, a blizzard, and a second snowfall, the county still has plenty of ice and snow. All that’s missing is ice melter. A run on local stores has made it a precious commodity for ...

State funerals, as we witnessed on television this past week, are always quite interesting. Equally interesting is many television reporters’ lack of understanding of the English language, displayed ...

Insider information about high school life won’t be clouded from the perspective of people long since graduated. It’ll come straight from someone who can relate to today’s students — because she’s one ...

There is a picture of the blaze from my shop burning to the ground. No one came with garden hoses trying to help me. No wonderful neighbors, except those of the fire crews, came to try to help. I was ...

A private memorial service will be scheduled later for former longtime resident of Cedar Point Harriette L. Foose, 90, who died Dec. 20, 2024 in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Interment will be at Bazaar ...

Still, Kansas’ first female senator continues to hold her independence dear, living largely by herself in a ranch house near Burdick. Her home, with its memoir-laden bookshelves and framed political ...

Services for Lynford Becker, 94, who died Thursday at Hillsboro Community Hospital, were scheduled for 11 a.m. today at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church. Pastor Jeremy Matlock was to officiate with ...

Services for Hillsboro native Joanne Foyle, 82, who died Thursday at her home in Emporia, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church, Emporia. Pastor Ross Baker will officiate. Born July ...

The Goessel girls are now 3-3 and 1-0 in the Wheat State League. Friday’s game will be at (3-5) Canton-Galva. The Goessel boys lost their first game of 2025, struggling to score and committing an ...

A graveside service for Blanche Ruth (Brown) Cowan, 99, Stockton, Missouri, who died Jan. 7 at Lake Stockton Healthcare Facility, will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Greenwood Cemetery, Newton.