Marion schools were among thousands nationwide to have data stolen from its PowerSchool website. PowerSchool is used by 16,000 organizations serving more than 50 million students.

Two Hillsboro city council members were sworn in for new terms at a council meeting Tuesday evening. Both Byron McCarty and Jeff Jorgenson were reelected after having run unopposed for their positions ...

Superintendent Clint Corby’s contract was extended for two years, and the president and vice president of the board, Jared Jost and Rod Koons, were unanimously reelected to their seats. All seven ...

A wheatgrass 21 years in development is taking root in Marion County and surrounding fields. Kernza, developed by the Land Institute in Salina, has made its way into small niche markets. It is used in ...

A graveside service for Blanche Ruth (Brown) Cowan, 99, Stockton, Missouri, who died Jan. 7 at Lake Stockton Healthcare Facility, will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Greenwood Cemetery, Newton.

Candidates for the appeals court position will be interviewed Jan. 28 and 29 in Topeka. A committee of other judges will select three finalists, one of whom will be appointed by the governor to ...

Final data from a straw poll on dropping “Wildcats” as Marion Middle School’s nickname reveals continued sharp splits among groups surveyed. Whether to change the nickname for all district schools to ...

State funerals, as we witnessed on television this past week, are always quite interesting. Equally interesting is many television reporters’ lack of understanding of the English language, displayed ...

The research shows that the use of Indian mascots increased stereotyping of native people by non-natives as “primitive,” “aggressive,” and “savages.” It leads people to dehumanize native people. And ...

Insider information about high school life won’t be clouded from the perspective of people long since graduated. It’ll come straight from someone who can relate to today’s students — because she’s one ...

No services are planned at this time for Kim Carl Brashear, 68, who lived in Peabody in recent years and died Dec. 23, 2024, at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital, Wichita. Born May 22, 1956, ...

The Goessel girls are now 3-3 and 1-0 in the Wheat State League. Friday’s game will be at (3-5) Canton-Galva. The Goessel boys lost their first game of 2025, struggling to score and committing an ...