The Dickinson County Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend the County Commission impose a three-year moratorium for data centers, alternative renewable energy and battery energy storage ...

Union Pacific Railroad’s locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, has celebrity status. Whenever it ventures out, huge crowds turn out ...

A water line break occurred Sunday afternoon in the 300 block of North Cedar Street. The Public Works Department completed a temporary repair yesterday and planned to make a permanent repair Monday, ...

Solomon City Park was packed Friday and Saturday as past and present Solomon residents, visitors from nearby towns and others ...

The Abilene Board of Education unanimously approved a new Academic Middle School After-School Tutoring Program that will replace the district’s grant-funded model. Superintendent Dana Sprinkle said ...

Sarah Jane Picking, beloved mom, grandma, great grandma and friend to many passed on July 16th, 2026 in Wichita. Sarah was born on February 8, 1940 in Republic, Kansas. She was one of nine children ...

Thomas Lee Litke, 90 of Abilene, passed away Thursday, July 16, 2026. He was born November 20, 1935 in Alta Vista, Kansas, the son of Thomas Benjamin and Faye (Newcomb) Litke. Tom grew up in the ...

Emergency responders from about 12 agencies were involved in a unique rescue operation that took place after midnight ...

The Abilene USD Board of Education received an update on the district’s budget development process during its recent meeting, with administrators reporting the district finished the fiscal year in a ...

On July 14, 2026, an arrest warrant was issued by the Dickinson County District Court for James Bradley Crump, 33, of Hope, Kansas, for murder in the First Degree and Aggravated Endangering a Child.