Next week it's expected that the Barton County Commission will take action on a request to use more than $1 million in stimulus funding bonds to help bring a hotel to northern Barton County, replacing the Hoisington facility that was destroyed in the 2001 tornado.

LaVern E. 'PeeWee' Karst, 82, died Nov. 21 at Central Kansas Medical Center in Great Bend.

Some people have the mistaken idea that farmers and ranchers are harming our environment.

Great Bend High School student Jeremy Zigler loads food items into his pickup Friday afternoon after the GBHS National Honor Society finished its first-ever food drive for the Barton County Food Bank.

Published online 11/13/2009 7:54 AM Morning blend: News from around Kansas Compiled by Edie Ross - The Hutchinson News - eross@hutchnews.com County delays action again on consolidating elected positions The Great Bend Tribune Barton County Commission members again this declined to take action for or against the suggestion that three elected ...

After a tense, two-hour standoff in which authorities resorted to launching tear gas, a 56-year-old Hoisington man emerged from a smoke-filled trailer and surrendered to law enforcement Monday evening.

WIN WIN SITUATION : 11/3/2009 This is a Win Win Situation for the Pet Food Maker and Great Bend.

A call to a domestic disturbance on Halloween night turned into a felony case when a teenager reportedly rammed into an Ellinwood Police Department patrol truck and then stole that truck.

Published online 11/3/2009 10:28 PM Brothers accused in separate killings One awaits sentencing in Barton Co.

Great Bend resident Mckenzie N. Usoro, 19, was arrested early Sunday morning in connection with a stabbing on Main Street Hoisington during a party.

Pictured is the former Great Bend Packing facility south of Great Bend. City and county leaders approved Monday an incentive package to lure Redbarn Pet Products to take over the plant.

A Hutchinson man who reportedly walked out of the Great Bend Wal-Mart Supercenter with three stolen TVs on Thursday was arrested after a vehicular pursuit through Barton County.

A local agency that provides service for disabled children took its expected funding cut, just as other agencies had to do this year, but it was successful in getting an obligation from the Barton County Commission for 2010 funding.

City, county pondering incentive package for Redbarn Pet Products Company would move from California into the GB Packing facility DALE HOGG October 23, 2009 @ 5:32pm The co-founders of a small specialty pet treat company from California view moving to Great Bend in a good light, but are still negotiating with the owners of the former Great Bend ...

Kevin Henderson with the Barton County Sheriff's Office Reserve Unit is shown in the haunted house, which opens Monday and runs nightly through Halloween.

History suggests that most of us have an opinion about elections. 'Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

The first shipment of the much-anticipated H1N1 vaccine to arrive in Barton County is only a drop in the bucket, but at least local health officials can begin what could be a long battle with the infamous new flu virus.

Historians suggest that it was the Rev. Jonathan Mayhew who, in a sermon at Boston in 1750, coined the phrase 'no taxation without representation.' Before the American Revolution, that phrase was well-used in Boston and famous political speaker James Otis took it up during the Revolution.

Melissa Hagerman, holding plaque, was named County Employee of the Quarter Monday.

Dick Schremmer has worked in the oil business for nearly 40 years. And he's only 55.