Voters elected Democrat Sarah Lopez to a four-year term on the Sedgwick County Commission. Official election results certified Monday confirm Lopez won the close 2nd District race over Republican Michael O’Donnell by 264 votes. After…

November 1980 Dr. John Norton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Norton of Iola, who is a physicist at the national laboratories at Los Alamos, N.M., spoke to Iola Rotarians. Norton predicted the nuclear electric…

I got the call on a Tuesday that my COVID-19 test came back positive, and my mind raced to two places: my kids and my heart. My kids because I feared they, too, were infected.…

Downtown Iola won’t shine quite as brightly this holiday season due to a decision by local “elf,” Tracy Keagle, to forgo decorating the courthouse lawn with an array of colorfully lit trees and a giant…

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the process for high school seniors to visit prospective colleges before committing to their future plans. Picking a college can be a daunting task. A senior might fall in love…

WASHINGTON (AP) — As I chug up Capitol Hill near the end of my morning run, I pass the same bustle I’ve seen every four years at this time since we first moved to Washington…

For the second week in a row, county commissioners debated how best to spend unallocated SPARK funds awarded to Allen County. Earlier this summer, the county received $2.4 million from Kansas’s SPARK task force, which…

Iola city crews will pick up bagged leaves from the curbside starting Monday. The plan is to make one sweep through town to pick up the bags. Residents are not required to call ahead, but…

WICHITA, Kan. — Gregg Marshall resigned Tuesday as Wichita State men’s basketball coach, nearly three months into an investigation that he physically and verbally abused players. Marshall, who brought the Shockers back to national relevance…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas coach Bill Self was still trying to figure out the makeup of his team the first week of November, roughly about the time the Jayhawks would have had a couple…