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Explore Kansas Outdoors: It’s a sunflower state of mind
- Explore Kansas Outdoors: It’s a sunflower state of mind
- Shifting heat ridges take toll on crops
- Kansas Wildlife and Parks approve regulation and fee changes
- Managing raccoons starts with food removal
- Kansas lawmakers push Trump for greater cattle market certainty
Opinion

Adventures in Learning: The role of medical research has become unfocused
- Adventures in Learning: The role of medical research has become unfocused
- Great Plains Wondering: Early morning ride is eye opening
- From the Bleachers: Your time is now
- Country Conversations: I was repairing grain drills when the first plane hit on 9/11
- Pastoral Commentary: Matters of indifference are not a matter of indifference
News

Doug Enick to succeed Doug Meyer as city commissioner
The passing of Pratt City Commissioner Doug Meyer on Saturday, September 5 left a vacancy on the city’s Board of Commissioners. The commission held a moment of silence for Meyer at their regular meeting on September 8 and the commissioners each shared some thoughts about Doug Meyer.
- Doug Enick to succeed Doug Meyer as city commissioner
- Jude gets on a train
- Sen. Moran announces federal investments for 11 Kansas rural hospitals
- Antique flag part of museum activity
- Maple Street closed for bridge repair on east side of Pratt
Community

Ricke honored at state teacher banquet
USD 382 officials traveled to Wichita with Pratt Southwest Elementary teacher Dani Ricke this past weekend to take part in a special ceremony honoring Teacher of the Year candidates from across the state.
- Ricke honored at state teacher banquet
- Kiowa County Board of Education appoints Fleener as voting delegate for KASB
- Riffey awarded OSU scholarship
- Free admission to Kiowa County Homecoming football game
- Pratt student selected for National FFA Chorus
Special Sections
Photo Gallery

3rd Annual Pratt Elks Car and Bike Show in Pratt
Photos by Jennifer Stultz/Tri-County Tribune
Sports

Skyline High School wins football opener; loses to Stafford in week 2
On Friday, September 4, Skyline Thunderbird football officially kicked off the 2026 season with a win on the road against the Eagles of Norwich, 20-18. The game was definitely not a pretty or poetic display of football for either team, with first-game jitters to work out, however, the Thunderbirds persevered, showing their grit.
- Skyline High School wins football opener; loses to Stafford in week 2
- Area football scores provided by Tri-County Tribune – Week 2
- Skyline girls win cross country meet at home
- Kansas schools hoping for $1 million football field funding from T-Mobile; Kiowa County in the hunt
- Tri-County Tribune area high school football scores
Conversations

Coming Events
* Send your Coming Events for Pratt, Stafford, and Kiowa counties to jstultz@cherryroad.com for inclusion in this free listing of events from the Tri-County Tribune coverage area! Many people show up at these events because “they read it in the paper!”
- Coming Events
- 9/11 changed our world forever, but not our Christian foundation
- Updated: Rosales injured in Kiowa County crash on Monday
- Coming Events
- Coming Events
Athlete of the Week
- Liggett and Bright are Week 1 Tri-County Athlete of the Week winners
- Hughes named Female Athlete of the Year for 2026
- Morrell wins 2026 Tri-County Tribune Male Athlete of the Year
- Congratulations to all Tri-County Tribune Athlete of the Week 2026 (Fall, Winter, Spring) winners
- Congratulations to all Athlete of the Week selections
Outdoors

Kansas Wildlife and Parks approve regulation and fee changes
By Jennifer Stultz Tri-County Tribune The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) Commission met August 27, 2026 and voted to approve several regulation changes. The approved actions include: Kansas State Park fee increases for…
- Explore Kansas Outdoors: It’s a sunflower state of mind
- Shifting heat ridges take toll on crops
- Kansas Wildlife and Parks approve regulation and fee changes
- Managing raccoons starts with food removal
- Kansas lawmakers push Trump for greater cattle market certainty
Opinion

Adventures in Learning: The role of medical research has become unfocused
- Adventures in Learning: The role of medical research has become unfocused
- Great Plains Wondering: Early morning ride is eye opening
- From the Bleachers: Your time is now
- Country Conversations: I was repairing grain drills when the first plane hit on 9/11
- Pastoral Commentary: Matters of indifference are not a matter of indifference





