It’s rush hour on a Friday evening in Sylvan Grove, Kansas, and Main Street is mostly empty, save for the rare truck or tractor. But inside one of the rough limestone buildings, Fly Boy Brewery…

Colony was abuzz Saturday with an energy and excitement unique to Colony Day, the town’s annual celebration. True to form, this year’s event started with a breakfast of biscuits and gravy thanks to the Colony…

(Note: This is the second in a series of stories investigating the decline in rural Kansas and efforts to reverse it. Read part one here.) DIGHTON, Kansas ? A billboard along Interstate 70 boasting about…