BURLINGTON — When Renee Lickteig moved from California to rural Waverly about five years ago, she was surprised and pleased to learn about the Coffey County Recycling program. “It’s good for the county. It’s good…

A long-awaited communications tower to improve law enforcement’s ability to talk to each other is getting closer to reality. Allen County commissioners are moving ahead with plans to build a tower. If everything works in…

“Can ARPA pay for that?” has become a common refrain as county leaders debate how to best use $2.4 million federal COVID-19 relief funds. On Tuesday, Allen County Commissioners got the answer: in most cases,…

HUMBOLDT — A remodel is underway at the former Countryside Funeral Home at 908 Central St. to convert it into a new Humboldt Senior Center. Cindy Scovill, site manager, said the new location will solve…

After taking a week to consider whether to give county employees a 4% or 5% raise this year, Commissioner David Lee ended up proposing something different: 6%. His fellow commissioners quickly agreed.  Commissioners last week…

Steve French remembers answering the phone when he was a child. His parents ran the ambulance service out of Moran, and he would sometimes answer the telephone when calls came. He remembers a call concerning…

Allen County commissioners finalized the purchase of storm shelters and heard a report about how much trash the landfill accepted in 2020. Commissioners voted to buy a sixth storm shelter for the north part of…

Thanks, but no thanks. That’s the message Bassett Mayor Larry Crawford had for commissioners when it came to the offer to put a storm shelter in his community. Commissioners agreed to buy five shelters for…

Allen County’s COVID ranking — based on vaccination rates, cases numbers and tests —  is improving slowly, as shots become available for children, cases rise and a new variant is causing concern across the world.…

Allen County hospital officials suffered sticker shock Thursday when they reviewed an estimate of nearly $80,000 to remove mold from the county’s medical arts building. But they were immediately reassured that it shouldn’t cost nearly…