(Dodge City, KS) (westernkansasnews.com) (Garden City, KS) (westernkansasnews.com)  An approximate $80-million highway reconstruction project to expand Highway-50 from 2-lanes to 4-lanes between Cimarron and Dodge City is moving forward.  The proposed project will expand 16-miles of Highway-50 to a 4-lane expressway.  The project is included among six Southwest Kansas highway modernization and expansion projects...

(Dodge City, KS) (westernkansasnews.com) A daylong conference on oil and gas activity in parts of western and south-central Kansas will be held June 19 in Dodge City. The Kansas Department of Commerce says the region was considered to have been tapped out by vertical drilling. But the agency says hydraulic fracturing also known as...

(Ford County, KS) (westernkansasnews.com) There are now 56 confirmed cases of whooping cough (Pertussis) in Kansas, including in Ford and Sedgwick counties.  Kansas Department of Health and Environment spokesperson Barbara Hersh says that only real way for Ford and Sedgwick county residents to safeguard against the illness is by getting a whooping cough vaccination. ...

(Garden City, KS) (westernkansasnews.com) A coalition of municipalities in western Kansas that includes Garden City and Dodge City is continuing its efforts to ensure that Amtrak’s Southwest Chief route remains in the region.  In April Amtrak officials met with community representatives in Garden City to discuss Amtrak’s concern that the aging tracks that run...

(Garden City, KS) (westernkansasnews.com) Garden City area residents can ‘pork out’ for a good cause on June 26th and 27th at the Methodist Church during a special blood drive.  The Kansas Pork Association (KPA) is teaming up with the Central Plains Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross as part of its 2012...

(Dodge City, KS) (westernkansasnews.com) Boot Hill Casino & Resort and the United Wireless Arena have teamed up with Wild West Country to provide a tasty new event for Dodge City Days.  The “Taste of the Wild” will take place at the United Wireless Arena on Friday, August 3rd, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. ...

(Garden City, KS) (westernkansasnews.com) Now that the court has set Kansas’ new district maps, there’s a good chance you will be voting in different districts for Congress or the Legislature. But you may not know for certain how the changes affect you anytime soon. It’s going to take weeks before county and state officials...

(Garden City, KS) (westernkansasnews.com) The Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating a serious collision that occurred on Railroad Avenue near Anderson Road just outside of Garden City shortly after 10 o’clock Monday morning.  Initial reports indicate that a motorist without any passengers in his vehicle was driving a sedan on Railroad Avenue when he allowed...

(Dodge City, KS) (westernkansasnews.com) A Bucklin man accused of sexual assault had his bond reduced Thursday.  Bond for18-year-old Vincent Stephenson was originally set at $200,000 but on Thursday, a judge reduced that by $100,000.  The Dodge City Daily Globe reports that Stephenson has no previous crminal history and has not been identified as a...

(Dodge City, KS) (westernkansasnews.com) Organizers of the annual Great Quack Attack in Dodge City to benefit the Alley Teen Center and Big brothers and Big Sisters really had their ducks in a row with thousands of dollars given away on Sunday at the conclusion of the fowl race for the rubber. Dodge City firefighters...