Rooks County News

Karen Johnson gives her Model T a crank to get it started back on the road in the "Ocean to Ocean in a Model T" tour, which stopped Friday in Burlingame.

Brent Kittelson doesn't have the luxury of sitting around, what with five -- soon to be six -- quarter-million-dollar pieces of equipment soaring through golden fields of wheat.

Northwest Kansas dodged the severe weather bullet overnight, although hail and heavy rains were reported in a few areas.

Another round of heavy rain overnight sent Bow Creek north of Stockton out of its banks again.

A rodeo, turtle races and a downtown carnival are just some of the events scheduled this weekend at Plainville's Paradise Creek Festival.

Beulah Brown admits she's not quite as prolific as some of the other 35 artists participating in the 20th annual Palco Art Club workshop this week.

In an instant, his life changed. But his faith never wavered. Right now, that -- and the support of his friends and family -- is what's keeping Greg Thyfault looking toward the future and his recovery from a spinal injury.

More than 1,000 miles from New York City, one rural Kansas physician recently found her clinic in the national spotlight.

Last Friday, the New York Times featured Jennifer Brull, a family doctor in rural Kansas, and the Rooks County Health Center in Plainville as being ahead of the nation in electronic health records.

Voters said no to two sales tax issues Tuesday in Rooks County, but Stockton City Manager Keith Schlaegel said he wasn't shocked at the results.

Two cities in Rooks County will be looking to raise their respective sales tax rates in the April 7 election.

Jim Thyfault's 16 years of work comes out in the details -- in the precise shape of the 98-year-old limestone; in the color of the illuminated stained glass windows; and in the St.

Tax revenues in oil-rich counties are plummeting. Marginal wells are shutting down.

Unemployment climbed sharply higher in Kansas in January, but most of that increase came at the expense of counties in the eastern part of the state.

Woodston farmer Jerry McReynolds was elected First Vice-President of the National Association of Wheat Growers during the Associationa s Board of Directors meeting in Grapevine, Texas Feb.

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A Phillips County man died Saturday morning following a one-vehicle crash in Rooks County.

When the minimum security prison here is mothballed on April 1, communities and businesses in northwest Kansas won't see it as a laughing matter.

They won't call it a fight, but community leaders in Stockton aren't giving up on efforts to keep their prison open.

All three teens were ejected from the truck as it rolled several times and came to rest in a ditch near Plainville.