Holcomb News

Holcomb City Councilman Gary Newman's biggest fear about the upcoming vote on what would be the city's first sales tax is that enough word isn't getting out to where Holcomb residents understand the initiative.

The cities of Garden City and Holcomb and Finney County are protesting maps drawn up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency that place more land within their boundaries in a flood plain.

USD 457 Superintendent Rick Atha has been making his way to the various groups, sectors and governing bodies in the community, providing facts on the upcoming school bond issue with a price tag of $97.5 ...

The Finney County Economic Development Corp. Board of Directors plans to express its support of the USD 457 bond issue that voters will face on the Nov.

Property owners, attorneys and representatives of the Kansas Department of Transportation gathered Tuesday in Finney County District Court for a consideration hearing in the eminent domain case to acquire land ...

Editor's note: This is the second in an occasional series about a Burmese refugee family adjusting to life in Garden City.

And unlike many communities, houses aren't going to sit waiting for buyers or renters.

The University of Kansas Theatre for Young People will perform "The King Stag" at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept.

It's not just Spanish and Vietnamese anymore. Garden City USD 457 staff have been used to having students enter their schools who don't speak English.

The Kansas Department of Transportation has filed an eminent domain petition to acquire the remainder of land for the four-lane project involving U.S. Highway 50.

Jake could be suspended for making an obscene gesture at school, but Charlie thinks he has a way to fix things with the teacher in order to keep her from punishing the boy.

Despite concerns of a teacher shortage, most of southwest Kansas' classrooms look to be filled with regular, licensed educators as the school year gets under way, with local and state officials saying the ...

City officials, church leaders, educators and others welcomed some of Garden City's newest residents Sunday at a picnic of the newly formed Burmese Association of Southwest Kansas.

Sunflower Electric Power Corp. and its allies may have lost the first couple of rounds in their fight to build two 700-megawatt coal-fired power plants at Holcomb in southwest Kansas, but they aren't about to ...

Sunflower Electric Power Corp. and its allies may have lost the first couple of rounds in their fight to build two 700-megawatt coal-fired power plants at Holcomb in southwest Kansas, but they aren't about to ...

Sunflower Electric Power Corp. and its allies may have lost the first couple of rounds in their fight to build two 700-megawatt coal-fired power plants at Holcomb in southwest Kansas, but they aren't about to ...

Sunflower Electric Power Corp. and its allies may have lost the first couple of rounds in their fight to build two 700-megawatt coal-fired power plants at Holcomb in southwest Kansas, but they aren't about to ...

Sunflower Electric Power Corp. and its allies may have lost the first couple of rounds in their fight to build two 700-megawatt coal-fired power plants at Holcomb in southwest Kansas, but they aren't about to ...

Sunflower Electric Power Corp. and its allies may have lost the first couple of rounds in their fight to build two 700-megawatt coal-fired power plants at Holcomb in southwest Kansas, but they aren't about to ...

Chances are good that the Legislature will have the same debate next year about two proposed coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas that it had this year.