A blue-green algae watch in effect most of the summer for Marion County Lake has been elevated to a more serious warning. The warning will remain in effect until at least Friday.

According to an announcement by Marion Kiwanis Club, today's Old Settlers Day parade will be delayed an hour, starting at noon.

Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad’s Flint Hills Express will offer a two-hour rail adventure at 10 a.m. Saturday through the Smoky Hill River valley. Trains will leave Abilene’s 1887 depot en route to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A house fire Monday evening in the 200 block of N. Buller St. in Goessel left no injuries, officials say. Homeowners, according to appraisal records, Erin R. and Daniel G. Stephens at 202 N. Buller St ...

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.