Football With Bill Utz

FAMILY AND FRIENDS CELEBRATE HIS HOMECOMING It was an emotion-filled day for two area families when Baby Van, born prematurely in early January, was finally able to be sent home from a neonatal intensive care unit. Fifteen weeks premature, Van...

Construction has begun on a new office building located across the street from the Platte County Courthouse at Fourth and Main Streets next to the Ben Franklin Store. The building is being built for Owens Realty by Callegari Construction Company....

David Wallingford of Platte City shows a big morel mushroom that he and his daughter, Tamara Workman, found underneath a dead elm. Wallingford, who has a heart condition, can’t walk too far from the road but he didn’t have far...

A proposed unified development ordinance and zoning map is becoming an important topic at the City of Tracy, with potential growth on the way to the small town. There is talk of new homes and a truck stop potentially on...