PHOTO PROVIDED Officer Josh Manning and his wife, Abrielle, hand out popsicles during the Halstead Police Department’s Buns and Badges free swim night at the Halstead Public Pool.

If you like an underdog, it’s hard not to root for a petition process to succeed in Kansas. In our opinion, there are few processes meant to give voice to citizens that are so staunchly rigged against ...

by Bill Bush The rain right now is great for the corn, soybeans, and milo but keeps farmers from completing their harvest of their wheat crops. Farmers Co-Op General Manager Jack Queen said they were ...

BILL BUSH PHOTO Kyle Woods, Sedgwick’s newest full-time police officer, talks about his current academy training at the City Council meeting.

By Adam Strunk Don't believe the text messages telling you to pay fines to the Kansas Department of Transportation or lose your license. They're a scam. The state of Kansas pushed forward a release ...

Former Beneficient CEO Brad Heppner regularly talked about bringing a grocery store to Hesston. As his story went, his mom couldn't get groceries in an ice storm, and he wanted to do something to ...

In pitch-perfect clarity, my 2-year-old grandson Liam said the king of all naughty words after spilling an entire jar of bubbles. Lucky for me, his dad had captured the entire conversation with his ...

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—With the Fourth of July quickly approaching, large tents have popped up all over Newton and other parts of Harvey County. For just a few dollars, the dreams ...

Hesston High Alum Ryan Achilles was able to travel overseas to compete in the Senior World Cup in Thailand as part of the U.S. Men's National team.

NEWTON—A couple in Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church exchanges vows in front of the Virgin Mary at a local museum. The couple isn’t real—they were made for a reproduction of the first Our Lady ...

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—Middle school and high school athletes are busy during the summer, even though they're not competing. They're just getting ready for it. This summer, students ...

By Adam Strunk HALSTEAD—A group opposed to a possible battery energy storage system has submitted a petition to force a vote on an ordinance banning certain kinds of the technology within the City of ...