Colby News

A number of factors -- not the least of which was the weather -- combined to make this year's Christmas holiday uncommonly deadly.

Jake McCullough installs a light on top of his road grader as he prepares for winter wether.

Passion for agriculture, pride in rural communities, and the courage to stand up for what you believe in.... Are you willing to do what it takes to make a positive difference for rural Kansas? As members of the Kansas Agricultural Rural Leadership Class X, we heard this charge from Trent Loos at our personal development seminar recently in Colby, ...

Three families travelling through Kansas from out of state, collided when the weather turned bad Tuesday evening.

Icy road conditions are to blame for three accidents including one fatality in northwest Kansas on Tuesday.

Shirley Gebert, a 1992 graduate of Colby High School, hadn't planned to write a book about a prince with a penchant for sandwiches.

No information was available on the condition of Dorothy J. Evans, 74, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Returning from a concert and exhausted, Joe Scott and Hanna Alkire, who make up Acoustic Eidolon, were stuck in Colby, Kan., with Interstate 70 closed and invisible under blizzard conditions.

Over the last several years, some insect and disease problems have never gone away, including leaf rust and Hessian fly in wheat, while others occur sporadically, such as ear rots in corn and stem borer in sunflowers.

Re-evaluating Replacements by Kindra Gordon Savvy managers know that re-evaluating strategies can often add efficiency - and enhance profitability.

A semi collided with a cart pulled by two Scottish Highland oxen driven by an 86-year-old Gem man 7 miles northwest of Colby on Thursday.

An 86-year-old man has been injured after his ox-drawn cart collided with a tractor-trailer in northwest Kansas.

One person was injured in a two-vehicle accident northwest of Colby on Thursday afternoon.

The Beef Reproduction Task Force and the National Cattlemens Beef Association is teaming up to offer the Applied Reproductive Strategies in Beef Cattle Workshop at the 2010 Cattle Industry Convention in San Antonio Jan.

Colby soon will be home to a new aquatic park, thanks to a three-quarter cent sales tax that was voted into effect Tuesday.

Winter weather systems put in place by the Kansas Department of Transportation worked as they should, agency officials said.

Several roads in northwest Kansas have been closed by authorities as a blizzard hammers the area this morning.

Pat Doran, a member of the Leadership Kansas 2009 class, spoke during a break in Friday's activities with Debbie Vignatelli Konzem, the statewide program coordinator.

Snow is already falling in Goodland this morning, and as much as 9 inches of snow is forecast in parts of western Kansas as a strong winter storm strikes the High Plains.

Kansas State University Research and Extension is again hosting the Kansas Income Tax Institute for accountants, ag producers, attorneys and others who are interested in learning the latest on tax issues.