Augusta News

One historic sunflower state tour will be shutting its dome doors for a while and ita s causing quite a rush.

About 170 Kansas National Guardsmen are preparing to deploy to Afghanistan, but before they ship out, community members and state officials will have the chance to wish them farewell.

Wichita-based NetWork Kansas needs to sell a little more than $400,000 in 75 percent state entrepreneurship tax credits before the end of the year.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for 13 counties in southern and central Kansas, effective from 9 p.m. today until 6 a.m. Wednesday.

Signum A.D. will perform at Hammerjacks Rock-N-Roll Sports Bar on Saturday, Dec.

After three years of failing to find a buyer, former Wichita developer Bob Whittaker plans to auction off the remaining lots in his Willowbrook subdivision in Augusta.

Augusta developer and former Congressman Bob Whittaker is auctioning off most of the lots in his Willowbrook subdivision.

A Wichita woman dies in an overnight accident. The Kansas Highway patrol says 25 year-old Olivia Salander was driving in the wrong lane on US 54 just west of Augusta.

Published today at 2:18 a.m. Last updated today at 2:26 a.m. * Andale will be one of the top teams in 4A and will be led by defending champion at 145, Jake Hattabaugh, and second-place finishers Benny Armstrong and B.J. Finney .

Jan Colvina s design career is, in a way, coming full circle. Colvin started in the business by dressing windows for a shop in Augusta when she was 14.

Former Butler County state legislator Peggy Palmer has thrown her endorsement to Mike Pompeo in the 4th Congressional District race.

When Lilli Lackey started college, talk of a growing teacher shortage gave her confidence that a job would be waiting for her when she got out.

FEMA has approved $17.8 million for tornado safe rooms in Kansas. Thirteen communities will get the total of 30 rooms, which are built to withstand 290 mile-per-hour winds.

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 4:01 p.m. Voter turnout has been below 10 percent today at some precincts in Richmond County's District 5, where an Augusta Commission and school board race are on the ballot.

" The La Cygne City Council last Wednesday approved a measure that will save about $252,000 annually on payments for the city's natural gas utility.

It was an accident. On that point, almost everybody agrees. Augusta High School freshman Andrea Young, 14, was shot and killed Friday night while attending an underage drinking party in the 900 block of Wirth Street in the small Butler County town, authorities said.

The town of Augusta is preparing to bury one of its own killed in what police are now calling an underage drinking party Friday night.

Megun Jarvi stands in the living room of the house where 14-year-old Andrea Young died Friday night.

Counselors will be available at Augusta High School this morning to help students mourning the death of freshman Andrea M. Young.

A 14-year-old girl was shot to death Friday night at an underage drinking party in Augusta, and the man hosting the event was arrested in her death, police said today.