Kansas  has been a state about 100 years longer than Libya has been an independent nation. The area it occupies in North Africa is 8.29 times larger in land area than Kansas, but is 92…

Col. Gadhafi appears ready to “slaughter his way back to power,” as the Wall Street Journal warned Monday in an editorial urging the U.S. to act on behalf of the rebels.President Barack Obama continues to…

Sen. Jeff King, R-Independence, and Rep. Bill Otto, R-Le Roy, who represent Allen County in Topeka, will be in Iola Saturday to talk about statewide issues and answer questions. The forum, sponsored by the Allen…

LAHARPE — In a few short months, LaHarpe’s new city library has grown by leaps and bounds.But the momentum provided by volunteers to open the library has stalled, LaHarpe City Council members were told Wednesday.Volunteers…

GAS — Pat Laver is looking for about $4,500 to put a piece of playground equipment in Walter and Helen Fees Park at the west edge of Gas.“We have $5,500 and we need $10,000,” she…

Private graveside interment for Margaret Caroline Lewis, 93, of Lawrence will be at the Lone Elm Cemetery. She died Tuesday, March 8, 2011, at Brandon Woods at Alvamar. She was born July 12, 1917, in…

Vera Ellen Thurman of Iola, whose death on Sunday and funeral services were published in Tuesday’s Register, was born March 1, 1916, in Covington, Okla., the sixth of 12 children born to William H. and…

The Kansas public employee pension system is under-funded by about $7.7 billion. To stop the bleeding, conservatives in the Legislature propose to move away from the current defined benefit system to one patterned after the…

GAS — A tract of 12 lots at the south edge of Gas, near the intersection of Second and Humphrey streets, eventually will be the site of a public storm shelter and part of it…

Sheriff Tom Williams thinks lowering speed limits on State Street as it runs south of town will mean fewer accidents.“We’ve had 30 reportable accidents on South State Street (old U.S. 169) in the last five…