The price of helium shot up six years ago and more than a dozen wildcatters — risk-taking prospectors who drill exploratory wells — headed to northeastern Arizona with the hope of striking it rich.

Otis, Kansas, produces and ships helium used to inflate Macy’s parade balloons. Messer plant cools, compresses and liquefies gas used to fill more than 30 balloons. Otis plant has supplied Macy’s ...

Otis, Kansas, is almost smack-dab in the middle of the Sunflower State, a community of about 280 people named after the son of the man who founded the town in 1886. It has a farmers coop, post office, ...

Otis, Kansas, is almost smack-dab in the middle of the Sunflower State, a community of about 280 people named after the son of the man who founded the town in 1886. It has a farmers coop, post office, ...