A plane made an emergency landing Tuesday in Marion County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, at around 1:30 p.m. a small plane flying out of the Newton Airport made an emergency landing just ...

Kansas Department of Transportation has approved a $660,949.50 contract with Heft and Sons of Greensburg to resurface the entire length of K-150 in Marion and Chase counties. No date for the start of ...

Two inmates were taken by ambulance Saturday to St. Luke Hospital from Marion County Jail. A 43-year-old man complained of chest pains and was coughing up blood. He was taken to St. Luke by Marion ...

A 64-year-old Wichita man drowned face down in two feet of water last week after his pickup ran off Remington Rd. south of 230th Rd. and became partially submerged upside down in a creek. When Robert ...

Hillsboro’s Jesiah Gooch, who was scheduled to sign as a preferred walk on at the University of Kansas , accepted a scholarship instead last week from the University of South Dakota.

A structure fire at a homestead Sunday highlighted what it is like to fight fires in rural areas. Around 5 a.m. Sunday, the Lincolnville firefighters were dispatched to a barn fire at 2921 Sunflower ...

Checks were handed out Saturday at Hillsboro Vintage Bank Ks for organizations participating in the 32nd annual Marion County Toy Run. The run, which was on Nov. 1, received funds and toys being ...

Amendments to Marion County zoning regulations pertaining to wind farms dominated a meeting Thursday of the county’s planning and zoning commission meeting. The commissioners chose to go line-by line ...

Peabody could soon have better cell service. At their meeting Thursday night, planners approved recommendatinng to county commissioners that a conditional use permit be approved for a Nex-Tech ...

Motorists pay between 70 to 80 cents more a gallon at the pump in Marion than in other nearby locations. A fuel station at Walmart in Emporia charges $2.09 for unleaded gas. Casey’s General Stores in ...

Marion City Council signalled support Tuesday for a grant that would cover 60% of the cost of another 78 rhinos throughout Marion. While the item on the council agenda was for discussion only, ...

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