High Plains News South is dedicated to bringing quality newspapers to northwest Kansas with publications in Bird City, Colby, Goodland, Oberlin, Norton, Atwood and Saint Francis.

The newspapers have won the Burton Marvin Award from Kansas University for News Enterprise, the Victor Murdock Award for outstanding journalistic standards from Kansas Press Association, Frank and Mamie Boyd Community Service Award from Kansas Press and Editorial Excellence, Photography and Community Service Awards from the National Newspaper Association. The Colby Free-Press, The Goodland Star-News and St. Francis Herald recently won NNA Photography awards.

Plus annually numerous individual newspaper awards have been received from the Kansas Press for photography, layout, news reporting, sports reporting, general writing excellence and editorial writing.

The company has five weekly and two semi-weekly newspapers

The Oberlin Herald, The Norton Telegram, Rawlins County Square Deal,
Saint Francis Herald, and the Bird City Times are the weekly papers

and The Colby Free Press and Goodland Star-News are the semi-weekly papers.

For information about the newspapers, to place an ad or to inquire about job opportunities, call

The Oberlin Herald (785) 475-2206; Colby Free Press (785) 462-3963; The Goodland Star-News (785) 890-2338;
The Saint Francis Herald (785) 332-3162; Rawlins County Square Deal (785) 626-3600;
and The Norton Telegram (785) 877-3361.

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