Kansas Department of Transportation   The Kansas Department of Transportation plans to start a chip seal project the week of July 13 along Kansas Highway 190 from the U.S. Highway 160 junction south to the U.S. Hi...

ELLY GRIMM    • Leader & Times   The Kansas State Board of Education is seeking some new people, and Lorie Wood is one of the candidates running for District 5. Wood said her roots in the area and in educat...

ROBERT PIERCE    • Leader & Times   The months of June and July are busy for Seward County United Way, and with only a month before area students return to school classrooms, the organization is looking to he...

Special to the Leader & Times   Black Hills Energy released its annual Community Impact Report Thursday, detailing a year in which the regulated electric and natural gas provider generated $1.65 billion in dir...

L&T staff report   The Churches of God in Southwest Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle will host the 102nd Southwest District Camp Meeting beginning Wednesday at the South Church of God located at 635 S. Washin...

ELLY GRIMM    • Leader & Times   The Kansas Insurance Commissioner’s office is one of many seeking a new face, and Dinah Sykes is one of the candidates seeking the office. Sykes, who currently serves as the...

ROBERT PIERCE    • Leader & Times   Monday, Seward County commissioners approved grant funding from a local foundation for some needed equipment and lease payments for other needed equipment and heard updates...

EARL WATT    • Leader & Times   Liberal kept its NBC World Series tournament hopes alive by taking two out of three from Rocky Mountain League-leading Hays. After dropping the first game of the series 3-2, t...

ELLY GRIMM    • Leader & Times   A new head is now officially wearing the Miss Kansas crown with Sophie Lewis. As Lewis tells it, her pageant career started at a rather young age. “I started when I was 6,...