By Adam Strunk County Treasurer Becky Opland (Fields) attended Tuesday's county commission meeting to notify the commission that she expected to have her meals reimbursed. Last week, the Harvey County ...

AmeriStarRail is proposing a privately-funded rail-line which could connect New York to Los Angeles, with a stop in Newton.

by Bill Bush HALSTEAD—Carrie Herman, recipient of this year’s Old Settlers Good Neighbor Award, has not only served Halstead but all of Harvey County and beyond. Herman was the executive director at ...

By Jessie Wagoner Harvey County Now Funding for the Kansas Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (KSFMNP), locally known as the “Farmers Market Program,” has decreased this year, while interest in ...

By Adam Strunk The Kansas Forest Service is in ‘wait and see mode.” Harvey County Now previously reported that the state service faced proposed federal budget cuts that would have removed 80 percent ...

By Adam Strunk Prairie View received the go-ahead for its plan to build three small duplexes meant to serve as transitional housing for patients. The Newton Planning Commission approved both its ...

By Adam Strunk Cadillac Jack's Steakhouse held a short ribbon-cutting Friday to celebrate the opening of an outdoor patio. The patio has room for ...

This is the main photo gallery for the Harvey County Fair, which started on Thursday, July 31, on the Harvey County Fairgrounds. As events are photographed by Wendy Nugent with Harvey County Now, they ...

By Rusty Whitcher HESSTON – As cleanup efforts continue from the May 9 blaze that severely damaged parts of Hesston College’s Charles Hall, plans are beginning to come together for the upcoming school ...

By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now SEDGWICK—Rachel McClaran looked for the next career step that would help her have a larger impact on students. That step was becoming the new superintendent in the ...

By Harvey County Now staff NEWTON—A Newton man received a sentence of 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to the rape of a child, as well as related sex crimes.

PHOTO PROVIDED Fourteen-year-old Maverick Heck found the Old Settlers medallion underneath the press box at the new baseball field behind the Halstead Middle School.