A cloudy overcast and slight bursts of cool wind made for great conditions Tuesday afternoon at the Marion golf invitation. Three county schools — Marion, Centre, and Goessel — participated, along ...

Marion County Democrats will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at Chisholm Trail Extension, 1116 E. Main St., Marion. Refreshments will be served. More information is available from David Yoder at ...

Chase County Detention Center has been contracted by ICE to hold suspected illegal immigrants since 2008. As of April 30, 119 of 143 Chase County inmates were classified as “deportable aliens” on the ...

Few deficiencies were noted in Marion’s annual independent audit Monday night. For the second year in a row, auditor Scot Loyd faulted the city for undocumented and apparently unreviewed journal ...

Friday afternoon was a bittersweet experience for members of Hillsboro’s former Trinity Mennonite Church as they toured a soon-to-open child-care center in the building that used to be their church ...

Hillsboro approved the plat of its Orchard Ridge development project Tuesday, though not without a bit of pushback. Tony Hill raised concerns that the development, which will include 24 affordable ...

City fathers believe that cleanliness is next to godliness and propose to compel parties who are not otherwise so inclined to keep their premises in the city clean hereafter. Some stringent sanitary ...

The state 2A forensics tournament Saturday at Marion drew 258 contestants from 25 schools. Students from Marion and Hillsboro schools were among them. Students prepared some presentations in advance ...

Marion County has the fifth-highest percentage of tax exempt property in the state at 25.2%, according to a study by the Kansas Association of Counties. Only Morton, at 41.7%; Riley, at 40.4%; Jackson ...

Peabody enjoyed an evening of jazz on Saturday as a young quintet entertained an audience of 40 at Sunflower Theater. The show was free, though donations could be made to the theater’s ongoing ...