Thirteen cement truck drivers descended upon Monarch Cement in Humboldt Saturday for a truck rodeo. The event gauged their skills on maneuvering the behemoth trucks through a series of obstacles, including making their way through…

YATES CENTER — While both basketball teams already knew when and where they would be playing next week to start the postseason, Humboldt and Yates Center had some unfinished business to take care of Thursday…

HUMBOLDT — Bequeathed with a gift from an anonymous benefactor, the Humboldt Historical Society will soon expand. Plans are in the works to erect a new building at the corner of Eighth and New York…

HUMBOLDT — With Valentine’s Day in the rear-view mirror, warmer temps just ahead (we hope) and area schools now through their respective Homecoming festivities, high-schoolers have set their sights on prom. A prom dress sale…

TOPEKA — Acupuncturist Paul Finney leveraged inherited farmland to finance renovation of a small historic hotel in downtown Humboldt. Finney can be blunt about how that venture from 1998 to 2006 turned out: “The hotel…

Moran and Humboldt were among 40 rural communities to recently be awarded Community Development Block Grants totalling more than $17.6 million to improve their infrastructure.  The awards are administered by the Kansas Department of Commerce…

MANHATTAN — Local students are among nearly 4,480 Kansas State University students who have earned semester honors for their academic performance in the fall 2021 semester. They include Emma Johnson of Humboldt; and Madison Carlin,…

HUMBOLDT — Opie’s will be serving up its last slice of pizza in downtown Humboldt on Sunday, Feb. 13. Owners Nobby and Terra Davis said the decision to close the family-style restaurant after 4½ years…

HUMBOLDT — Harvey Peck, whose murals adorn the walls in governmental buildings, area churches and even a local restaurant, is being remembered after his death Saturday at the age of 95. Peck worked as a…

Humboldt photographer Mike Myer was at Perry Lake in northeast Kansas over the weekend, where he snapped some spectacular photos of a nest of eagles, both resting on tree branches and in flight. The migratory…