Harvey County News

July 3 and 5 - 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. July 4 - 10 a.m. to midnight Fireworks are allowed on private property with approval of landowner or occupant.

Seven Sedgwick County health clinics on Tuesday were awarded more than $1.2 million combined in grants to help thousands of Kansans have better access to care.

Goessel native Bethany Amstutz will reprise her role in the musical 'The Upside-Down King' for three performances in Krehbiel Auditorium on the Bethel College campus in North Newton later this month.

With Kansas' wheat on the verge of being harvested, the weather gave the crop one last whack.

More than 23,000 residents are without power tonight as storms and tornadoes move through Kansas.

A Wichita man dies in Harvey County crash. It happened around three Saturday afternoon near Hesston.

We do indeed get a raft of press releases via e-mail here at the Eagleland Businessplex.

A year after saying it had trouble finding workers, a Hesston company lays off dozens of employees.

Paige Welch came to this town for a 28-day stay at the Valley Hope Treatment Center, located in a wing of the former Halstead Hospital and Hertzler Clinic.

Non-Hispanic white people are now a minority in four of Kansas' 105 counties, and two other counties appear to be on a pace that will push them across that threshold in just over a decade, new Census Bureau estimates show.Non-Hispanic whites will remain the majority in Sedgwick County for at least the next 50 years, the figures suggest, and they ...

It will help recruit and retain volunteers who look out for victims of child abuse, all while speeding up the court process.

Lynnette Redingtona s title was incorrect in Tuesdaya s Kansan story about the city commission meeting.

Ford County authorities have released a few more details about an alleged rape of a child and aggravated interference with parental custody.

The Newton City Commission will have a regular meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.

With the recent rain in South Central Kansas, you've probably had your fill of water.

Katie Cornejo's motion to reinstate bond has been denied. Cornejo's attorney, Alice Osburn, argued it would be best for Cornejo to be outside the Sedgwick County area pending her second jury trial.

A damage assessment by the National Weather Service yielded a large band of destruction caused by winds of between 80 and 100 miles an hour.

In the past, Jerry Morris has given tours of his Harvey County hog farm to everyone from county commissioners to Kansas State University.

Our city of Newton has been many things. Among them was a rough-and-ready railhead cattle town, a railroad hub for Santa Fe, and a farming community.

The Newton Kansan garnered 13 awards in the Kansas Press Association's 2007 Awards of Excellence Competition.