Full PDF text of ruling. By ERIC MEYER. Staff writer. In an open records case brought by the newspaper, a state judge ruled Fri ...

Marion County’s new health department building, featuring a laboratory, a pharmacy, a reception room with large portraits of county residents, a drive-thru garage, and a plethora of storage rooms, ...

To be determined is whether council members will embrace openness and let the public in on the process or perpetuate past patterns of secrecy, which in no small way may have contributed to a revolving ...

Services for Richard W. Scheele, 74, who died March 26 in Hillsboro, will be 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday at Jost Funeral Home, Hillsboro. Born April 23, 1950, in Colorado Springs to Paul and Jean ...

An independent audit Tuesday concluded that Hillsboro ended 2024 with half as much money as hoped in its general fund. The audit by the Adams Brown CPA firm did not find any problems, city ...

Removing the lock caused only minor damage to the metal door, Brazil said, but he recommended to the manager that locks on both bathroom doors be replaced. A moment of levity ended the boy’s ordeal.

A year and a half after former Marion County deputy and Burns Police Chief Joel Justice Womochil, 39, was arrested on child pornography charges, he was sentenced Thursday to 60 years in federal prison ...

Hutchinson Community College nursing student Kelli Christ, daughter of Andrew Christ and Nanci Heath of Goessel, has been named a 2025 New Century Workforce Scholar and will receive a $1,500 ...

The finished song, titled “Ron Rap” after his boss at his job on a fruit and vegetable farm, was such a success among classmates that Spohn began writing more raps in his free time. To post his music ...

County planning commission members provided answers Thursday to questions county commissioners asked them last fall to investigate. The questions came in response to reports that an expanded wind farm ...

Peabody-Burns will field its own track team and join with other county teams for two other sports this season — Hillsboro for baseball and Marion for swimming. The school’s varsity track and field ...