NRCS celebrates 90th year
The Natural Resources Conservation Service is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2025. Before it was the NRCS it was the Soil Conservation Service and prior to that it was the Soil Erosion Service.
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Area roundup: County schools cap busy week
It was a strong week for most of the McPherson County area smaller schools as Little River remained unbeaten in football and both Moundridge and Canton/Galva earned wins.
McPherson Police Department to Host Annual C.O.P.S. Fundraiser
The McPherson Police Department is set to host the Kansas Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) Annual Fundraiser on Saturday, September 27, from 8 a.m. to noon at the department’s Training Facility and Range.
ICE detainees in Kansas jail complain of overcrowding and medical neglect: 'A war of attrition'
Detainees in a Cottonwood Falls jail describe sleeping on the floor in over-capacity cells. Amid a national deportation surge, this jail is one of the region’s primary immigration detention centers.Recently released detainees from the Chase County Detention Center in eastern Kansas are speaking out about alleged overcrowding and a lack of medical care at the facility.
Mud swallowed half of this Kansas lake. Engineers think they can fight back
Picture three-and-a-half football fields with earth piled onto them — piled as tall as the Empire State Building.
Prisons say newspapers could carry drugs
TOPEKA — Drug-soaked paper was smuggled into at least one Kansas prison, according to state officials, who cited this as the reason for changing print newspaper subscription policies.
Kansas sorghum farmers will have their biggest yield in years. But tariffs killed the market
Farm fields across Kansas are turning amber as sorghum crops come to full maturity. The state’s farmers are expecting a bountiful harvest this year thanks to more rain than recent years.
Kansas among nine states to swap voter rolls with Texas in effort to find duplicates, prevent fraud
TOPEKA — Nine states are swapping voter rolls with Texas, and officials say the agreement will “improve the accuracy of voter registration records.”
McPherson daycare owner charged with felony child abuse
A McPherson daycare owner is facing a felony child abuse charge after being arrested earlier this month in connection with the alleged mistreatment of a young child in her care. Kimberly Kay Horn, operator of a licensed daycare, was arrested on September 11, and booked into the McPherson County Jail.
Southwest Kansas school board president's unoccupied vehicle struck by 10 gunshots
TOPEKA — Comanche County law enforcement officials Monday asked for the public’s help investigating an incident in which 10 bullets were fired into the unoccupied, parked vehicle of the local school board president. President Kelly Herd, and other members of the school board in southwest Kansas, have been embroiled in controversy that led to the suspension of superintendent Ty Theurer pending an inquiry into allegations he sexually harassed and inappropriately touched a student.