Newspaper hosting Holiday Expo
The holiday excitement kicks off Saturday with the Ho Ho Ho Holiday Expo at Dodge City Civic Center.
The Expo, put on by the Dodge City Daily Globe and Pratt Tribune, features vendors, treats, musi…
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A look at the old post office building
"One-and-one quarter miles south-southwest of the Dodge City post office there was 29 one-hundredths inches of rainfall." This is often what Dodge City citizens hear when they turn on their NOAA all …
The Owings and West Building
It was once an automotive business. Today it houses a restaurant, nail salon, women’s clothing store and a data supply shop. The Owings and West Building takes up the stretch on the west side of Cent…
Remembering Eckles in downtown Dodge City
It was the "go to" place in downtown Dodge City. Eckles Department Store was the shopping Mecca for all of southwest Kansas.
The Locke Mercantile Company had the original building built in 1908 and…
Magician, tigers returning
Jay Owenhouse is bringing his 2017 Family Magic Tour to Dodge City and he made the tour unique by letting fans choose some of the show.
Unfortunately, that left him in a tight spot.
"I was hoping…
The Immaculate Heart of Mary Church
Once a hub of weekly activities, the "Cathedral of the Plains" stands as a silent sentinel over the rural Ford County country side.
This structure, which can be seen for miles around, is officially…
KANSAS taking the stage tonight
Iconic rock band KANSAS — with ties to Dodge City dating back to the early 1970s — will take the stage tonight at the United Wireless Arena.
The band is wrapping up its Leftoverture 40th Anniversar…
Director to screen movie
GREENSBURG — A local movie will represent the Southwest Kansas region at the Tallgrass Film Festival next week. "Rabbits," a short film directed by Patrick Clement, was shot in Kiowa, Comanche and Ba…
The man behind Burr House
The cemetery isn’t the only historic feature which sits on Boot Hill.
In 1927, businessman Hiram Burr built a Dutch Colonial Revival house near the top of Boot Hill at the southwest corner of Fifth…
A look back at Mexican Village
Dodge City’s population consists mostly of people coming from far away or from foreign places. This is nothing new.
Around 1900, the Santa Fe Railway brought Mexican immigrants to Dodge City to wor…