NETAWAKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas transportation officials are beginning a pilot project to determine how drones could be used in future road design work. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that last week marked the first time…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The company processing Kansas Medicaid applications is days away from potentially facing millions in fines for inadequate performance that has frustrated state officials, health providers and patients for years. Kansas officials…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia said today it was holding out hope that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 would one day be found, as the last search of the seabed in the remote Indian Ocean where…

Community service is a focus of the Prairie Dell 4-H Club this spring. Club members participated in the annual tree sale supported by the Community Involvement Task Force (CITF). Members helped sort trees and bushes,…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand plans to slaughter about 150,000 cows as it tries to eradicate a strain of disease-causing bacteria from the national herd. Politicians and industry leaders announced the ambitious plan…

In January of 1922, nearly thirty years after swapping his native Sweden for the rolling plains of central Kansas, the painter Birger Sandzén received his first one-man show in New York City. To this day,…

A memorial service to celebrate the life of Jeanne Louise Chambers Bills will be held on Saturday, June 2, at 3 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Iola.

At Week’s End Over the years, and with increasing frequency more recently, I’ve mentioned to friends I’d willingly forego the technological marvels of today if I could go back and relive my life in the…

Humanity House Unemployment rates are at an all-time low. That seems like great news. However, it’s not. It would be great if the workers were paid a living wage. It is a sad state that…

Insight Kansas Kansans should thank those courageous state representatives, a coalition of Republicans and Democrats, who in the last hour of the last day of the recent legislative session withstood the tempting siren song of…