Democracy isn’t neat and tidy. Others will say things that make your blood boil, and whether you believe it or not, you will say things that make theirs boil, too. But the only way forward is for all ...

When FDR was sworn in as president in 1933, the fourth year of the Great Depression, it was by no means clear that the United States would survive 10 more years, let alone the ten thousand he ...

Yellow signs around Marion bearing the words “mill sale” led a wanderer over the weekend to Bearly Makin’ It Antiques, much like following a yellow brick road. For co-owner Marion “Oggie” Ogden, the ...

Although a heat signature of the suspect was identified in one of the fields, drone batteries had to be changed, and the suspect got away, surrendering peacefully Thursday evening at police ...

The Mitchell Whirl was removed in September, 2025, after its center post rusted out and collapsed around Chingawassa Days that summer. It had been cordoned off with hazard tape before crews dismantled ...

Marion residents have faced delays receiving utility bills by mail. Some don’t get them until just days before the payment deadline.

“The Stang: A Kansas Tale,” a 590-page fictional retelling of Klein’s years as a German exchange student in Marion, will be released Thursday. The self-published novel is, in Klein’s words, a “love ...

Two Marion County dispatchers were fired this month over unrelated “personnel issues” still under investigation, Sheriff Jeff Soyez said.

Firefighters from four departments saved an abandoned Peabody house Friday night after fire burned its back porch and spread into the attic. No one was injured. Flames were visible on the back porch, ...

Hillsboro council members have given Edward and Phyllis Richert until the first week in November to address conditions at their property at 314 N. Jefferson. Council unanimously approved an abatement ...

Services for Susan Kliewer, 74, rural Hillsboro, who died Sunday, will be 11 a.m. Saturday at First Mennonite Church, Hillsboro. Relatives will receive friends 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Jost Funeral Home.

Trains will leave Abilene’s 1887 depot en route to Enterprise for tours of Hoffman Mill and shopping at the Country Store, featuring home-ground flour, cornmeal, and other mill products. Along the way ...