Hugoton News

More aid is being cut from school districts after the state announced recently that it will reduce the amount of aid it provides per student by 2 percent.

The U.S. Department of Labor is cracking down on White's Foodliner, a grocer with stores in Goddard, Kingman and Hugoton.

Gov. Mark Parkinson must make more cuts to the state budget after Kansas ended the fiscal year $126 million short of expectations.

At 16 cents over the July on Wednesday, a Hugoton, Kansas feedmill's basis bid was considerably above the surrounding region.

HOLCOMB a ' The Holcomb City Council made a move Wednesday night to keep the police department moving forward temporarily without a chief of police.

Incoming University of Kansas students and their parents from Stanton, Grant, Haskell, Morton, Stevens and Seward counties will be welcomed into the KU family at the Jayhawk Generations Welcome Picnic at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 25, in Elkhart.

More than three-quarters of a century has passed since Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were declared national public enemies.

The Jetmore Motorplex was quaking with the unbridled thunder of the winged warriors as the high banks hosted night one of the Steve King Memorial.

What do you think of the agreement between Gov. Mark Parkinson and Sunflower Electric Power Corp.

Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinsona s plan to speak Wednesday afternoon to a joint session of the Legislature wona t come to pass.

Research by the Kansas Geological Survey the at the University of Kansas has attracted some $55 million dollars in investments by energy companies in a mammoth natural gas field - the largest in the Western Hemisphere.

House Speaker Mike Oa Neal, R-Hutchinson, says the state should furlough nonessential workers to help resolve its budget shortfall.

'The hole is too deep to fill exclusively by cutting budgets and it is also too deep to fill exclusively through revenue enhancements,' he said, speaking before more than 100 people in a ceremony that lasted less than 10 minutes.

Southwest Kansas Royalty Owners Association will hold its 61st annual meeting Saturday at Hugoton's middle school auditorium.

As lawmakers and the governor tangle in Topeka over the future of KTEC, the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, two local entrepreneurs watch the tug-of-war with great interest.

Southwest Kansas legislators vowed to use as much forethought as possible before returning to Topeka at the end of the month to reopen debate about next fiscal year's state budget, expected to end with a deficit of nearly $330 million.

There is no getting around spending cuts or tax hikes to resolve a mind-boggling $328 million budget deficit outlined Friday by state financial analysts who believe the Kansas economy won't soon break the grips of a recession.

Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' plan to fold a state agency that nurtures high-tech businesses into the Department of Commerce hasn't gotten much traction with the Republican-controlled Legislature.

A telecommunications company executive declined confirmation to a second term on the Kansas Health Policy Authority.

Brian Hansen, 34, grew up helping run his family's dairy farm in Kingman County, and he's still doing it today.