A blue-green algae watch for Marion Reservoir was continued Friday for another week. The reservoir is among nine bodies of water in Kansas under algae warnings. Seven other bodies of water and under ...

America at 250. Even accidental leaders can grow into their positions. By H.W. BRANDS. From In Pursuit by special arrangement with Kansas Humanities. During the 19th century, the ...

As the stone was fastened and lifted by a skid steer loader, 18 pairs of eyes fixated that way. When the stone was set, a collective breath was let out, and 40 years of wishing came true for the ...

Disturbing details emerge amid teacher’s plea in sex case. By JUDD WEIL. Staff writer. A former Peabody-Burns High School teacher pleaded no contest Tuesday to six felonies invo ...

By OWEN PROTHRO. Staff writer. Forget lawnmowers. Marion City Council is looking at ways for goats to clean out areas of hard-to-rea ...

A county health department nurse was airlifted to the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita in critical condition after her car ran off the highway on K-15 Saturday evening in Dickenson County. Pam Holub, ...

Crofoot’s seat to be filled before primary. By CLARA GERMANI . and ERIC MEYER. Staff writers. Republicans will have a convention July 23 to select a replacement to serve the rem ...

Survivors include his wife, Angie Mendoza; children Tessa and Hayden Mendoza; Hayden’s fiancé, Sydni Leonard; brothers Gregorio Mendoza Jr., Genaro Mendoza, Graviel Mendoza, and Javier Mendoza; and ...

Three Red Cross blood drives are planned in Marion County in coming weeks. Appointments are being accepted at redcrossblood.org. July 22 — noon to 6 p.m. at Eastmoor United Methodist Church, 105 ...

The price of beef is at a historic high, and producers who raise beef along with their wheat, soy or corn crops are grinning all the way to the bank. “No question this has been a great help,” Unruh ...

Finding their ‘big voice’ “I’ll boil your gizzards for my supper!” Izzy Schumacher – a/k/a Captain Hook – will growl later this week in a children’s theater produc ...

Department on Aging director Lou Turk worries about Kansas’ new waiting list for a program that helps seniors remain in their homes. “They say they don’t want people to fall through the cracks,” Turk ...