El Dorado News

Both are forecast to fall as Memorial Day travelers hit the road for a long weekend of family gatherings, camping and start-of-summer getaways.

Gas prices in the Wichita area were around $3.89 per gallon this week. Analysts suggest that refinery problems in the Midwest are causing a shortage in gas supply, driving up prices.

The cities of Wichita and El Dorado have opened informal talks about the purchase of water from El Dorado Lake, according to an El Dorado city official.

Having listened to police scanners Sunday during and directly after the storms, I want to commend Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter for getting out himself and directing and assisting.

U.S. 77 will be overlaid between K-256 east of Marion all the way to the north city limit of El Dorado starting today.

National Police Week is this week and honors the lives of all of those officers lost in the line of duty throughout the nation.

It involved a certain obscene gesture with his middle finger. And it involved an emotion he might be excused for having - hatred.

Mormon missionaries from Topeka admit they give up a little when they go on their two-year assignments but quickly add they get much more in return - on spiritual and personal levels.

Stewart Kenneth Cody McGill, 21, Bewdley, Ontario, pleaded guilty to one count of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the convictions of a man serving life in prison with no chance of parole for the murder of an El Dorado teenager who led a secret life as an Internet porn model.

A Canadian man is expected to soon learn his punishment for taking a 12-year-old Kansas girl he met on the Internet.

Stewart Kenneth Cody McGill, of Bewdley, Ontario, faces sentencing Wednesday in federal court in Wichita on a charge of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

As I checked in this morning on some of the Wichita-area businesses we follow on social media, a few posts stood out as newsworthy updates to stories we've covered in the past: Background: WBJ reporter John Stearns broke the news in March that B.J. Hunt of Wichita and Rick Goehring were working to open a microbrewery in El Dorado.

El Dorado-based Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital is building a new clinic in Augusta called the SBA Immediate Care Clinic.

Jay D. Swanson was a goal-driven entrepreneur and geologist who always had a different story to tell and loved to kid people.