Sherman County News

Attorney General Steve Six, along with Kansas Lottery Executive Director Ed Van Petten, announced Monday that six people were charged with attempting to steal lottery winnings.

While farmers were struggling to harvest fall crops, they also were trying to get into fields to plant wheat and bale silage to winter cattle.

The powerful snowstorm that has blanketed parts of Colorado and Wyoming began pushing into northwestern Kansas on Thursday night.

The caravan of dump trucks, pickups and anything else that could carry branches and debris felled by a vicious and fast-moving storm was virtually endless Tuesday.

The National Weather Service deployed assessment teams this morning in an effort to determine the extent of the damage caused by one -- perhaps two -- tornadoes that dipped down Monday evening.

A night of wild weather struck northwestern Kansas Monday, with high winds, softball-size hail and heavy rain.

Confirmed cases of the H1N1 Influenza A virus in northwest Kansas: * Gove County -- One case involving an adult * Logan County -- One case involving an adult * Rawlins County -- One case involving a child * Sheridan County -- One case involving a child * Sherman County -- One case involving an adult * Thomas County -- Three cases involving adults ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment regrets that a laboratory error has resulted in a case of H1N1 influenza being incorrectly reported in a resident of Sherman County.

Cases of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus were confirmed today in a Sheridan County child and a Sherman County adult.

In an effort to help bring food to tables around the world, farmers deal with whatever Mother Nature throws their way: drought, floods, hail, tornadoes, untimely frosts, diseases and pest infestations to name but a few.

This is day 15 of the Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas City Board of Trade, DeBruce Grain, the Kansas Grain & Feed Association and Kansas Wheat.

A driver was flown to a Denver hospital after an injury accident in Northwest Kansas today.

An early morning rollover accident in Sherman County sent three travelers to the hospital today after the driver of the vehicle reportedly fell asleep at the wheel.

A historic era in the annals of Kansas short-rail service is coming to an end. In the early 1980s, the Mid-States Port Authority rescued the service from the jaws of the Rock Island Railroad's bankruptcy.