A crowd of roughly 8,000 attended the final Symphony of the Flint Hills concert Saturday at Evans Family Ranch in Chase County. It was the 20th anniversary of the popular event. The annual concert ...

Marion, Hillsboro, and Peabody all receive their drinking water from the reservoir, but treatment procedures are designed to eliminate threats from algae. A watch indicates that a harmful bloom is ...

Northern and eastern Marion County soon will be getting a new state representative. Scott Hill, who has represented the 70th House District for the past 2½ years, was chosen Monday night to replace ...

Hillsboro’s senior center serves the most meals at its site, an average of 1,971 meals a month. Marion’s senior center provides friendship meals to an average of 514 seniors a month, pickup meals to ...

TC’s What-Not Shop is impossible to miss. Its bright-green facade, speckled with metallic lawn décor and fiery novelty signs (“Keep Calm and Return Fire”; “God is Great, Beer is Good, and People are ...

It’s not unusual to see red and blue lights flashing atop a deputy’s squad car as he investigates a burglary. It’s more unusual when what’s stolen are the lights, and the owner is the sheriff’s ...

Truth be told, I found my first 18 years in Marion to be quite pleasant. I loved that I could spend lots of time with family members, including two grandmothers who, rare for that time, were ...

A rural Peabody man who apparently was in a long-running feud with neighbors was arrested Saturday after going to their house, firing a gun into the air, and making threats. Curtis L. Findley, 33, ...

Hillsboro has nine lift stations, which collect sewage and pump it to wastewater treatment plants. The industrial lift station on Industrial Rd. between 200th and 190th Rds. will receive a new pump, ...

Recycling in Marion likely will soon be done by a contractor instead of the city. Recycling now costs city residents $8 a month for weekly pickup.

A 10-acre plot of land on Old Mill Rd. north of the former county “poor farm” will be sold after county counsel Brad Jantz worked up paperwork to transfer it to the county’s land bank. The land is ...

Historic bricks in the 100 block of Elm St. were gently re-laid last week as part of reconstruction of curbs and guttering and replacement of a too-small drain pipe that leads to Luta Creek. The ...