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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daffy, the biggest duck, led the way, waddling as fast as she could. Plop! A frog flew up out of the grass in front of her and landed in the pond. The ducks stopped in their tracks. “What’s in our ...

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 ...

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.

America at 250. Even accidental leaders can grow into their positions. By H.W. BRANDS. From In Pursuit by special arrangement with Kansas Humanities. During the 19th century, the ...

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.

The season of candidate forums is upon Marion County. The Record will sponsor a candidate forum for the contested 4th District county commissioner seat and the 70th District state representative seat ...

A new format for state Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken baseball tournaments was tested over the weekend in Hillsboro. Instead of separate locations for each age division, the under-10, under-12, and under-16 ...

Luna and six other dogs opened the Marion County Fair on Monday after a rain delay scrubbed Sunday’s horse show. The fair will continue through Saturday, with traditional livestock exhibits, project ...