Hugoton News

The family of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ramsey, Uniontown, announce the couple's 50th Wedding Anniversary.

Kansas faces a $6.4 billion shortfall in road project funding over the next decade, a report by a Washington D.C.-based transportation group shows.

Nearly 6,000 oil and gas fields drilled in Kansas since 1860 are shown in a series of new maps now available from the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas.

The start of fall today has brought some cooler temperatures and scattered showers, predicted to stay around in the area for the rest of the week.

Some schools in southwest Kansas are seeing an increase in enrollment this year, area school district officials said, citing the preliminary numbers from a count of students taken Monday.

Alejandra Hernandez-Castro was 3 when her parents came to the United States from Mexico in search of a better life for her family.

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that up to $21 million will be made available for the selection of five projects that will develop supply systems to handle and deliver high tonnage biomass feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels production.

Despite increased budget cuts, the Kansas Board of Regents has asked the University to find a way to increase the number of students educated in the School of Engineering.

A Hugoton man is jailed after being charged with first-degree murder in the death of his mother.

A Hugoton man is jailed after being charged with first-degree murder in the death of his mother.

Federal stimulus efforts are touching even a floor-by-floor renovation of the Kansas Statehouse, which began years before the nation's current downturn.

A Hugoton man is jailed after being charged with first-degree murder in the death of his mother.

A Hugoton man is behind bars after killing his mother, investigators said. Sheriff Ted Heatson said authorities arrested 25-year-old Michael Maestas Saturday, after he called 911 and told them he stabbed his mother, 52-year-old Lorenza Maestas.

It was in her own home that 52-year-old, Lorenza Maestas was murdered by her 25-year-old son, Michael.

Nathaniel Beau Hancock, a 2005 University of Kansas alumnus from Hugoton, has won a nationally competitive Cleveland Art Prize.

One look around Charles Stones' basement and it becomes readily apparent for whom the bell tolls.

Reading bills - The Pledge to Read sounds like a program aimed at preschool parents but actually is a promise by lawmakers not to sign any health care legislation until they've read it.

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.