Services for home builder and rancher Steven Leroy Jost, 87, who died Jan. 28, will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Grace Community Fellowship, Hillsboro. Pastor Carl Helm will officiate. Born Jan. 12, 1939, ...

Temperatures and precipitation were above average in January, according to climatological data released this week by the National Weather Service. The weather service expects weather that’s wetter and ...

This jail roster was obtained Tuesday from the jail’s inmate listing system.

Rep. Greg Wilson, after your meeting with patriots in Marion and your need to ask your wife, Marsha, for details, can you please ask her for her detailed plan on cutting costs for everyday Kansans?

“In Memoriam” listings are expanded paid obituaries, phrased largely as the family requests, and may include enhanced information or photographs that might not fit within free death notices.

At Tuesday’s Hillsboro City Council meeting the League of Kansas Municipalities was hired to lead the search for a new city administrator. Current administrator Matt Stiles resigned to take a job in ...

The proposed bylaws also would make a planning commissioner have to wait three years rather than one to be reappointed after completing three terms. Chairman Dave Crofoot objected to that proposed ...

After 49 years in law enforcement in Marion County Duane McCarty called it a career – sort of. While McCarty will not be on a force as a full-time officer, he agreed to work part-time on a very ...

Cover crops also have become more common. Planted between harvests, these crops keep living roots in the ground for more months of the year, stabilizing soil and reducing erosion. Not harvested, they ...

It’s time to park event center idea. When you see any of the fine, community-minded people currently advocating construction of a Central Park venue for events, be sure to thank ...

No one is arguing that the names of the accused or his or her supposed victims should be released, especially while an investigation remains pending. But at least some indication of the scope of the ...

Firefighters from Lost Springs, Lincolnville, Ramona, Marion, Herington, and Tampa battled the blaze. Marion and Tampa ambulances, along with the county emergency manager, also responded.