Abilene News

County commissioners will be seeking feedback on changing boundaries so that each of the three districts continues to have about 6,500 to 6,600 residents per district.

Concordia remains tied for the North Central Kansas League wrestling title with a 68-12 win over Chapman Thursday.

Former Trenton resident Hope Layne Higgins had her art work featured at the Memorial Hospital in Abilene, KS during a reception at the hospital on Jan.

While needed rainfall is falling Friday in the Abilene area, the Dickinson County highway department took advantage of a warm and dry January to complete four tube installation projects that would have been put off until later in the year.

Brittni Atkinson, right, a Chapman eighth-grade student, won the Dickinson County Spelling Bee, which was conducted Wednesday afternoon at the Abilene High School auditorium.

Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum director Karl Weissenbach is pictured on the second floor gallery that celebrates the 50th year of the opening of the library building on the Eisenhower Center complex.

First District Congressman Tim Huelskamp kicks off the first of seven town hall meetings planned during February with a stop in Abilene on Monday, Feb.

The dispute between the Eisenhower family and architect Frank Gehry over his design for the former president's memorial on the Washington Mall is both regretful and familiar.

Snowflakes create a wintry backdrop for a man as he walks in front of the Rivendell Book Store, 212 N. Broadway, Tuesday morning.

Gerald D. "Jerry" Copenhaver, 61, passed away Sunday, February 5th, 2012, at the Abilene Memorial Hospital.

Hayley Cottrell a third grade student at McKinley Elementary School, shows Floyd and Ruth Edmunds, both of Abilene, how information can be accessed on an iPad.

An artist's rendering of a model for the memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower to be built in Washington, D.C. The design and concept behind the memorial, with Frank Gehry as the architect, has raised objections by the Eisenhower family.

While needed rainfall is falling Friday in the Abilene area, the Dickinson County highway department took advantage of a warm and dry January to complete four tube installation projects that would have been put off until later in the year.

Hayley Cottrell a third grade student at McKinley Elementary School, shows Floyd and Ruth Edmunds, both of Abilene, how information can be accessed on an iPad.

Fort Riley is home to 18,000 soldiers. The northeast Kansas post has been adding buildings since the 1st Infantry Division headquarters returned from Germany.

Richard Norton Smith, a nationally recognized authority on the American presidency, will be the inaugural speaker of a new Lincoln Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb.

Robert Gene Wilkins of rural Abilene died Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Tromping through the pasture as a kid to bring the cows home was never Rob's favorite activity, but something about walking the land got into his blood, and in later years he became an avid hunter of arrowheads and other artifacts.

Brittni Atkinson, right, a Chapman eighth-grade student, won the Dickinson County Spelling Bee, which was conducted Wednesday afternoon at the Abilene High School auditorium.

A state senator said lawmakers have hit the ground running based on the pushes made by Gov.

Abilene has been approved for membership in the Flint Hills Regional Council. According to the Council's website, it is "a voluntary service association of local Kansas governments from Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Riley, Pottawatomie and Wabaunsee counties and their respective municipalities and unincorporated areas." The primary purpose is to ... (more)