CANEY — Humboldt Middle School’s volleyball team swept their way to victory here Thursday. Lady Cub head coach Darcie Croisant noted her players started slowly, following a long bus ride to Caney, but picked up…

While Iola High’s varsity team remains sidelined because of a COVID-19 quarantine, the Mustang C team was back in action Thursday with a home game against Burlington. The two teams provided one of the most…

In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, several newly unemployed residents sought out Rep. Kent Thompson. They needed help processing their unemployment claims. The Kansas Department of Labor’s antiquated computer system couldn’t keep up…

LA CYGNE — Iola Middle School’s eighth-graders “took care of business” early on against Prairie View, and came away with another resounding victory, 36-0. “It was a group effort in tonight’s shutout victory,” Mustang head…

CHANUTE — Iola Middle School volleyball coach Terri Carlin was certain of two things Thursday: “This was going to be a tough match,” she said. “And we were capable of beating Chanute.” Carlin’s eighth-graders dropped…

RICHMOND — Iola High had a  successful day on the cross country course Thursday. Both the Mustang and Fillies squads picked up team victories, filling the leaderboards with several familiar names. On the boys side,…

Alana Cloutier remembers her first voting experience. She accompanied her father to a voting booth in 1984, when she was just a child. He jokingly told the poll workers she was there to vote for…

There’s more to gain from sports than diagramming a play or learning the proper way to throw a curveball, Jarred Latta notes. Take failure, for example. “Failure is inevitable, in sports and in life,” Latta…

Monarchs are on the move and heading through southeast Kansas. “We’re part of their annual migration pattern,” explained Randy Rasa, naturalist and trail steward for Thrive Allen County. And what a migration it is, with…

An election year already defined by a cascade of national crises descended further into chaos Friday with President Donald Trump declaring that he’s tested positive for the coronavirus after consistently playing down the threat. Democratic…