Carla Nemeck received the Distinguished Service Award for 2022 from the National Association of County Agriculture Agents during their national meeting on July 20 in Florida. Nemecek serves as the director for the Eastern Region…

HUTCHINSON — Southwind Extension District 4-H members from Allen, Bourbon, Neosho and Woodson counties brought home top-10 finishes Sunday at the Kansas State Fair Photography Judging Contest.  The intermediate team of Jackson Han, Austin Maycumber,…

HUTCHINSON — The Southwind District 4-H Crops Judging Team brought home third place at the Kansas State Fair Sept. 10. Competitors were judged individually and as part of the team in the senior division. Individually,…

HUTCHINSON — Allen Countians raked in some serious hardware during the first weekend of the Kansas State Fair when it came to showing livestock in the Grand Drive. Carson Keller, son of Mark and Gretchen…

Free at-home COVID-19 test kits are available to all Kansas households beginning immediately. Five test kits are available to each household.  The free test kits are made possible through a partnership between the Kansas Department…

MANHATTAN — The Virgil Lair family has been selected as Kansas State University’s Family of the Year by Chimes Junior Honorary and will be recognized at the K-State football game versus Tulane Saturday. The selection…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective who has long been accused of sexually preying on Black women during criminal investigations was indicted Thursday on charges that he sexually abused…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Wichita City Council on Tuesday voted to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana and fentanyl test strips in the state’s largest city. The move would eliminate between 750 and…

TOPEKA — Nearly two-thirds of $48.5 million in COVID-19 funding earmarked for expansion of broadband services to Kansas homes and businesses was invested in upgrading internet connectivity in the southern half of the state, an…

HAYS — Even for a perennially dry region like western Kansas, this year sticks out. Barely any rain. Temperatures that bake the soil into a cracked, parched mess. And forecasts that don’t offer much hope…