Centre schools will be closed Thursday and Friday because of an outbreak of illnesses. According to a posting by Superintendent Daniel Ackland, 20% of the districts’ students are out sick with ...

Marion will hit the road this Friday to play Moundridge. Scheduled for back-to-back games Friday and Saturday because of weather delays, the Trojans traveled to Minneapolis and lost 59-36 Friday. Then ...

Kiersten Wildin hits a three-point buzzer beater Thursday night to give the Warriors a 28-27 victory at home over Council Grove. “Kiersten stepped up and hit the game winner for us,” coach Jason Hett ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Free help with filing income tax returns for people age 55 and older will be available 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays until April 15 at Marion Senior Center. Appointments are being accepted at (620) ...

“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.

Services for Dean Filmore McGillivary, 99, who died Jan. 23, will be 5 to 7 p.m. March 18 at Jost Funeral Home, Hillsboro. Born March 18, 1926, on a farm near Hayes Center, Nebraska, he was the sixth ...

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 ...

Planning and zoning Commissioners will recommend lowering the maximum of people allowed at short-term rentals to six from what was previously eight to 12 The biggest change P & Z will recommend to the ...