Retired Emporia city manager Mark McAnarney has been filling in as interim administrator since then. Wells, who is expected to start in mid-June, will move to Marion from Collier County, Florida, ...

A 20-year-old from Wichita has been charged with four offenses in two sex-related cases. One is filed as an adult case. The other case is filed as a juvenile case because of his age at the time.

Marion County fire departments are part of a pilot program creating a state wildfire response program. So far, only Marion County fire departments and Herington’s fire department, which works closely ...

A high-speed chase Tuesday morning through Marion, McPherson, and Saline counties ended in the suicide of the driver. Anthony Marshall, 47, was a suspect in a robbery Monday of Equity Bank in Topeka, ...

A Marion grandmother who broke up a fight between two dogs in her dining room Sunday ended up at St. Luke Hospital to get stitches. Interim police chief Zach Hudlin said police were summoned to a ...

County commissioners heard the first wish list for a county budgeting Monday when representatives of the 8th Judicial District asked for $210,294.62. Chief Judge Ben Sexton told commissioners that ...

St. John’s Lutheran Church in Lincolnville is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its church building, including its pipe organ.

Peabody formally adopted a code of procedure for future city meetings. There was already a list of “council meeting procedures” at the back of agenda packets distributed at council meetings, but the ...

Marion’s combined swim team finished fourth out of 10 schools Saturday in the Andover High girls invitational. “As the season comes to an end, I am really proud of all the hard work the girls have put ...

Background checks are required under Kansas law. KSA 74-5605 states that all officers must be “of good moral character” and that no officer who has committed “a misdemeanor offense that… reflects on ...

A Marion officer who came to the police department in February, 2024, with the intention of returning to Hillsboro, where he had been a part-time officer before, has decided to stay at Marion. “Marion ...

A high-speed chase Tuesday morning through Marion, McPherson, and Saline counties ended in the suicide of the driver. Undersheriff Larry Starkey said a “be on the lookout” advisory alerted Marion ...