Hodgeman County News

A $14 million reservoir project in western Kansas will be the site of a dedication ceremony this weekend.

Millions of gallons of water have escaped a Kansas dam. The problem is that it wasn't supposed to happen and now authorities are calling the case a crime.

HorseThief Reservoir is about a third of the way full of water after recent rains, according to the Pawnee Watershed District Board of Directors.

An already deadly weekend on Kansas highways continued Sunday as two people died, bringing to five the fatality total in the last two days.

A Western Kansas teenager died in a one vehicle accident early today. The Kansas Highway Patrol said Amber Schmitt, 17, of Burdett died in the crash on US-283 in Hodgeman County at 12:30 a.m. Troopers said the pickup truck Schmitt was driving left the southbound lanes of the highway and rolled in the ditch.

This year Kansas has green fields, kissed by the sun. There are blue skies with white clouds high above.

This year Kansas has green fields, kissed by the sun. There are blue skies with white clouds high above.

For more than a year, like an army of ants, orange-colored earthmovers have been driving in a steady procession, moving dirt to the top of an embankment.

Isaac Korf of Kinsley died from a car crash while traveling northbound on 233 Road in Hodgeman County .

A collision between a pickup and a Mack truck near Offerle claimed the life of a Kinsley, KS, teenager Friday.

A Garden City man was injured Friday afternoon in Hodgeman County, after his semitrailer caught fire in a crash.

Artifacts dating back 1,000 years were uncovered in western Kansas during an archaeological dig that was required before work on a dam could begin.

For all the hoopla accompanying the federal stimulus package, its actual effects can seem small, such as the improvements planned on a 16-mile stretch of two-lane highway in rural northwestern Kansas.