Riley News

After several years of slight population growth, projections from the U.S. Census Bureau call for Saline County to begin a slow slide as soon as next year.

Residents have been given two extra opportunities to provide feedback on Vision 2025, Riley County's new comprehensive plan.

Col. Daniel B. Leatherman will be nicely bronzed when he returns to Muskegon in the next few weeks, and not just from standing in the sun burning over central Iraq.

The Fort Worth soldier jumped up from a nap when his unit came under fire and didn't want to waste time putting on his uniform.

The soldier who fought the Taliban in his boxers says he's glad to be back home in Fort Worth -- especially on the Fourth of July -- after his yearlong deployment to Afghanistan.

Staff photo by Michael Schweitzer. Harwood Shawver harvests one of his wheat fields near Riley Tuesday afternoon.

The last American patrol in Baghdad? A 75-minute American patrol on Saturday night covered the northwest sector of the capital.

The City of Manhattan is partnering with the Kansas Department of Transportation to update the 2001 Transit Implementation Plan to review the feasibility for transit service.

Little did my friend Sue and I know, as we watched our boys drive away on the school bus for their first day of Kindergarten, that 18 years later, we'd be watching CNN to make sure our boys were OK in Iraq.

A U.S. Army Reserve Soldier/firefighter negotiates the self contained breathing apparatus Course at the Fort Hunter Liggett fire station, May 14, 2009.

Hundreds of area Army personnel gathered downtown Saturday night to celebrate the 234th birthday of the US Army.

A high-speed chase through Manhattan neighborhoods and through Riley and Clay Counties reached speeds of 90 mph Thursday afternoon and ended when police used a vehicle to push the suspect off the road.

President Barack Obama will fail in his effort to turn the U.S. into a statist utopia, not only because the populace would never accede to it but because there is no loophole in the Constitution that would allow him untethered power in times of emergency.

Members of the Riley County Police Department cross the intersection of 14th Street and Poyntz Avenue while participating in the Special Olympics torch run Wednesday morning.

Despite having a low 3 percent unemployment rate, Riley County remains in the bottom half of Kansas counties in terms of household income.

An argument between a driver and passenger is being blamed for a rollover crash along the Kansas Turnpike.The crash occurred about 1:55 p.m. Monday along Interstate 70 near the Kansas 7 interchange.The driver, Lawrence Ray Cuington Jr., 25, of Ft.

Time to test your knowledge of current events. Question No. 1 - American Eagle Airlines announced it would expand air service to Manhattan starting Aug.

Pvt. Tony Tremayne Lewis, 19, was arrested early Friday after being questioned at the military base and a search warrant was executed on his vehicle and barracks.

On 05-27-2009 Officer Wade Smith of the Riley County Police Department stopped a suspicious subject in a residential area of Manhattan.

As of today, a total of 79 cases of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus have been confirmed in Kansas according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment .