Month: April 2021

Children and grandchildren of Steve and Adelina Holloway are hosting a celebration from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the Allen County Country Club in honor of the couple’s 60th anniversary. Steve Holloway and Adelina…

An incident last weekend is an example of why having law enforcement serve as traffic control officers is overkill. According to an interview with John Sigg of Iola, he was flagged last Friday night by…

It was a good news week this week, as in positive and hopeful. Top of the list was Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of legislation that bans transgender teenagers from participating in school sports.  It was…

Anyone following American state politics this spring has witnessed, time and again, bizarre legislative proposals. Most notably and seriously, dozens of state legislatures have put forward an avalanche of initiatives that target trans athletes and…

Register National News Mrs. Carrie Nation announced in Wichita today that she will not accept bond tomorrow at her hearing, but will go back to her old cell in the county jail. After she has…

An estimated 8.8 million Americans are behind on their rent, according the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. While relief efforts have staved off some of the housing crisis, rent is still going to come due.  The…

WASHINGTON (AP) — World leaders joined President Joe Biden Friday to close his virtual climate summit with stories of their own national drives to break free of climate-wrecking fossil fuels — Kenyans leapfrogging from kerosene…

TOKYO (AP) — Only three months before the postponed Olympics are set to open, Tokyo and Japan’s second largest metropolitan area of Osaka have been placed under emergency orders aimed at stemming surging cases of…

TOPEKA — Speaking on the Senate floor earlier this month, Sen. Oletha Faust Goudeau talked about the inequities she has experienced daily at the Legislature — from being denied boxed lunches because she didn’t “look”…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Environmental and consumer groups are raising alarms about what they claim is limited transparency as Kansas regulators review Evergy’s plan to spend more than $8.9 billion on the utility provider’s infrastructure…