Former commissioner Dan Holub was selected Thursday to fill the 4th District commissioner vacancy created by the death July 10 of Dave Crofoot. Once formally named by the governor, he will serve until ...

The Record will sponsor a bipartisan forum for county commissioner and state representative candidates July 26 at the ballroom of Marion’s city hall. The format will not be a debate but a chance for ...

Another Day in the Country. Getting my ducks in a row. By PAT WICK © Another Day in the Country. It’s been a quiet week in Ramona, my home town, except on the corner of 5th and ...

A blue-green algae watch for Marion Reservoir was continued Friday for another week. The reservoir is among nine bodies of water in Kansas under algae warnings. Seven other bodies of water and under ...

County officials are weighing a fiberoptic project on farmland in the southwest corner of the county, slow-walking the proposal to mollify public anxiety about potential connection to data centers.

Pioneer Bluffs will sponsor its annual Day of the Cowboy starting with an ice cream social at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. A program about the cow horse — including a guest speaker and panel of experts — will ...

The worst effect of excessive fascination with property taxes is that local governments, especially cities that provide utilities, avoid property tax increases by imposing more regressive taxes, like ...

Durham and Flint Hills Counterpoint, a land conservancy group in Peabody, got $10,000 in Kansas Arts Commission grants Tuesday. They are among 91 groups to get a total of $750,000. Durham got $6,940 ...

A former Peabody City Council member was formally charged Tuesday with attempted first-degree murder. Alan D. Gillen, 62, was arrested at 7:42 p.m. Thursday by a sheriff’s deputy and booked into ...

County commissioners on Monday extended a moratorium on data center development for another year while reopening questions about whether past wind-energy regulations were adopted through proper public ...

By OWEN PROTHRO. Staff writer. A proposed zoning change that would restrict competitors wanting to open another hospital in Marion seems to be mov ...