By Rusty Whitcher HESSTON - Clean-up efforts have begun following the May 9 fire in Hesston College’s J.D. Charles Hall of Science and Arts. According to state fire investigators, the fire has been ...

by Bill Bush SEDGWICK—As part of Older Americans Month, the Sedgwick Senior Center recently held an open house to showcase for the public what they offer, displaying handmade quilts, paintings, and a ...

by Bill Bush SEDGWICK—Sedgwick’s new fire/EMS station is on schedule and on budget, according to Greg Urban with BG Consultants. Urban told the city council in a special meeting prior to its regular ...

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—Merrill Raber was a Renaissance man. At least that's how friend Sue Ice of Newton described him. She said he was an oil painter, poet, traveler, Newton mayor ...

By Sarah Beauchamp HALSTEAD—The Halstead City Council had a final discussion around contracting out code enforcement at their recent work session. A contractor who handles code enforcement for several ...

by Bill Bush SEDGWICK—Growing up in a small town (Campo, Colorado, a dirt-road drive from Elkhart, Kansas), Dwayne Cummings wanted to find a cozy community after two years of teaching in Wichita. He ...

by Bill Bush This is the second in a series highlighting the 2025 Volunteers of the Year in Harvey County as recently announced by the Central Kansas Community Foundation. NEWTON—Lynne Beth has made a ...

By Adam Strunk Two days of storms brought some widely varying rainfall totals throughout Harvey County. Severe storms moved through the area both Sunday and Monday nights. The Sunday storms brought ...

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—It was one student against 12 adults. That's how the first dodgeball game on Friday with seventh graders against staff at Chisholm Middle School ended. Joao ...

By Rusty Whitcher HESSTON—Oftentimes, it falls through the cracks until an agent from Kansas Wildlife and Parks shows up to write a citation. People from ages 12 through 20 must have completed a ...

By Rusty Whitcher HESSTON—Drivers may notice the near completion of the patching project on Lincoln Boulevard, which has limited traffic to one lane in each direction during the daytime hours in ...

By Rusty Whitcher HESSTON—For 50 years, a track and field record stood untouched at Hesston High School on the girls’ side of the book. Once again, Ashley Lehman decided to rewrite the record book, ...