Augusta News

Wichita Clinic physicians in Augusta are seeing patients with allergies, skin infections and swimmera TMs ear.

New University of Kansas students and their parents from Butler, Elk and Greenwood counties will be welcomed into the KU family at the Jayhawk Generations Welcome Picnic at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 16, in El Dorado.

In our first June issue... The Hitch-hiker. Space Structures uses fiberglass reinforced plastic for both the exterior and interior surfaces of a new container that permits shipment of frozen or chilled goods via unrefrigerated trucks.

Football added 30 minutes of football-specific training three days a week and 50 minutes of speed work two days.

Rick Nunnelley and his family, Lexie, 13, Cindie, and Olivia, sit on what his family calls his "throne." Rick built the entire structure himself using rocks he has found.

A path of thunderstorms producing 80-90 mph winds overturned semi-trailer trucks and downed power lines near Hutchinson and Yoder tonight, Reno County Emergency Management said.It was part of a night of thunderstorms that also produced tornadoes near El Dorado.Tim Newman, assistant director of Reno County Emergency Management, said trees blocked ...

Andy Borowitz got it right. Kent Bush , columnist at the Augusta Gazette somehow manages to blame satire for his own shortcoming.

Surely, Stanley Dunham was gazing skyward 65 years ago, on D-Day. Dunham, the man whom Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a 26-year-old supply sergeant stationed near the English Channel with the U.S. Army Air Forces when the invasion of Normandy at last began.

Summer is like that, at least for children -- weeks of potential fun stretched before them like a wide-open prairie, and the timer starts... NOW! Today.

Affolter, Eric R. and Smith, Tristin L., both of Mulvane. Aldrich, Nickolas D. and Lockett, Joy E., both of Wichita.

We've got track regionals today and make sure you check out varsitykansas.com for more track results than you can ask for.

I am hearing a lot of renewed grumbling about the KSHSAA and regional sites, etc.

The best hot rods are the ones we build over and over in our minds. They become better when we let the idea simmer until finally there's an epiphany--"I know exactly what I want." For Dick Price Jr.

A school bus and SUV collide just North of Augusta in Butler County Monday afternoon.

A crash involving a school bus near Augusta injured four people Monday afternoon.

Chrysler filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday and announced it will temporarily halt most of its vehicle production while it completes a deal with Italian carmaker Fiat designed to revive its tattered fortunes.

Casting wary eyes on the sky and the radar, Butler County officials scrambled Thursday to prepare for possible flooding.

The rivers in Butler County have receded, giving flood-weary victims in the Wagon Wheel Ranch area a chance to start mopping up.

Flooding has prompted evacuations in south-central Kansas in the wake of a violent weather system that spawned at least two tornadoes in the area.

Authorities evacuate an Augusta neighborhood early Monday morning because of flooding concerns.