Fourteen work as cashier-bagger duos. The store places one person at each register solely to bag. It may look a bit silly on slow days but improves transaction speed significantly when the store is ...

Rain discolored and shrank the mature grain. County extension agent Rickey Roberts was more measured in his comments, calling the wheat quality “pretty average.” ...

That $800,000 that was earmarked for Sunflower Theatre in Peabody as part of the National Endowment for the Arts will now be redirected to the Chicago field office for ICE, just down the road in ...

Services for Evelyn Regier, 90, who died June 24 at Hillsboro Community Hospital, were Saturday at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church. Born Sept. 5, 1934, to Harry and Salome (Claassen) Funk, she ...

By FINN HARTNETT. Staff writer. With the Fourth of July just around the corner, seasonal fireworks stores have shot into life like a roman candle. In ...

After three separate executive sessions in a meeting that stretched over two hours, Peabody City County voted Monday to appoint Matthew Neal police chief. Neal has been retired for a year from his ...

Born Dec. 16, 1933, to Abe and Margaret (Nikkel) Ensz, he married Marilyn Wiens on July 29, 1954, in Hillsboro. She survives along with son Scott Ensz. Sons Rick and Kelley Ensz preceded him in death.

In 2024, Hillsboro reported 18.3 crimes per 1,000 residents, nearly twice the 9.9 crimes per 1,000 residents reported for the county as a whole. Statewide, the crime rate was more than double the ...

Rumors may say otherwise, but gasoline storage tanks at Casey’s General Store in Marion are not leaking, according to Kansas Department of Health and Environment. For several weeks, fuel pumps at ...

Peabody’s 104th annual ground display fireworks extravaganza may be the most dramatic display in the county, but it’s not the only fireworks show people can see this weekend.

The oldest living former governor of Kansas, John Carlin, was elected to two terms. He concluded his second term in January, 1987. By that August, he was my professor at Wichita State University.