Rush County News

As farmers waited for the start of the 2009 wheat harvest, Bill Legleiter's 1974 Massey Ferguson simply chomped away at a field just north of Liebenthal.

It is often said that alcohol lowers your morality and changes your personality, which is a major reason why so much crime is associated with its use.

The message Thursday evening was loud and clear: Adjustments need to be made to the location of a proposed power line stretching from Spearville to Hays.

Lend us your forks, your spoons, your cream of the crop -- at least as far as eating establishments in northwest Kansas are concerned.

The Kansas Corporation Commission will conduct a two-phase hearing this month in La Crosse to seek comment on the construction of a 345,000-volt powerline from Spearville to Hays.

OTIS a ' West Wind Energy has been in the small western Kansas town of Otis for only four months.

Epic Energy Resources Inc. , Houston, , a provider of engineering, management consulting and training services, has sold its interest in a low-volume gas field in central Kansas to an undisclosed partner for ...

Thunderbird Energy Corp. today announced that it has completed the previously announced private placement of $2,000,000 principal amount of two year, 12% convertible debentures.

Students from six Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Feb. 18, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment.

And about two months ago, the company relocated from Great Bend to a larger facility at 405 N. Main in Otis, where it will have plenty of room to grow.

Not many people have heard Off Duty perform, and members of the local country band are OK with that.

Mary Leidig hasn't even had a full month to recover after serving Thanksgiving dinner to nearly 130 Rush County residents.

Residents in this Rush County community know they're lucky. When their longtime pharmacy -- the only one in the county -- closed at the beginning of this year, they were left driving a good 30 minutes to fill ...

Pharmacist Holly Hoyt, left, verifies prescriptions alongside pharmacy technicians Nicole Tarbell and Ashley Schwindt at Hoyt Health Mart Pharmacy in La Crosse.

Snow is falling again in western Kansas today, and Wichita may see snowflakes late tonight and early Friday.