Listen to the top audio articles and podcasts from the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado, for the week ending May 16, 2026.

Top articles from the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado, for the week ending May 16, 2026.

Rural life and humor, with characters from the mind of Slim Randles.

The federal government announced Wednesday it’s reimbursing the Washington state health department $263 million for costs responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Twelve of the 19 people granted early release from prison by former South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem without a customary review by a state board have since been charged with new crimes.

The South Dakota Department of Social Services is taking a second look at two administrative rule changes the department originally proposed last year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture designated a natural disaster area Thursday in four South Dakota counties due to drought, making farmers and ranchers eligible to apply for emergency loans.

A notoriously destructive insect once eradicated from the United States is seeing a resurgence in Mexico.

A project to deliver drinking water to rural New Mexicans earned a multi million-dollar boost from the feds this week.

Another session passed with no agreement on wind turbine setbacks as new language fell flat in the Oklahoma House Thursday.