Harper County News

Danville's new cross proclaims Jesus' love across the wheat fields By Tracy Winslow Immaculate Conception Church in Danville has a new cross for its church steeple that will gleam across the surrounding acreage for many years.

Another round of severe weather toppled power lines in northern Oklahoma, leaving dozens of homes and businesses without electricity.

Far from the plains of windswept Kansas where he grew up, Travis Peter found a good job as a financial adviser in upstate New York.

Four companies that drill mainly horizontal oil wells filed 57 intent-to-drill notices with the Kansas Corporation Commission in the last 30 days.

The chart shows percentage change in oil and gas jobs over the prior year. Until 2008, jobs grew and declined at roughly the same rates in each of the four states, but more recently, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma have grown much more quickly.

$25 an acre, said Gordon Stull, a lawyer in the town of Pratt, who helps clients negotiate mineral right leases.

In this May 19, 2012, photo provided by Cate Eighmey, Caleb & Candra Pence pose for a wedding photo as a tornado swirls in the background after they were married in Harper County, Kan.

The nuptials took place in Harper County, Kansas, where tornadoes are fairly commonplace.

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Oil rigs are springing up in farmer's fields. "No vacancy" signs hang in the windows of local motels, and a steady stream of trucks barrel through Main Streets.

The same tornado that damaged a Harper County farmstead nearly ended up crashing a nearby wedding.

On Monday, students loaded onto a bus and headed out to help clean up farmsteads damaged by Saturday's EF-3 tornado that tore a path through parts of Harper County.

After several weeks of near picture perfect weather in the Midwest, Saturday evening's weather was a reminder that it is still the peak of tornado season.

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for northwestern Harper County and southcentral Kingman County until 6:45 p.m. At 6:15 p.m., a line of tornado producing storms was located along a line from 7 miles east of Zenda to Sharon.

Business is booming in Kingman thanks to hundreds of workers who have temporarily moved to the area to build what will soon be the state's biggest wind farm.

Oil production in Kansas rose and natural gas production dropped in 2011 as crude oil prices remained high and gas prices fell, according to estimates from the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas.

Oil production in Kansas rose and natural gas production dropped in 2011 as crude oil prices remained high and gas prices fell, according to estimates from the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas.

The plan would move Kingman and Harper counties and part of Sumner County into the First District, which includes all of western Kansas.