PARIS (AP) — France’s prime minister today defended new nationwide measures to combat a resurgent coronavirus in France that include closing schools for at least three weeks and putting in place a month-long domestic travel…

COLONY — Crest High School celebrated the Throckmorton-Riser Foundation this week for a pair of donations that helped the school start up a new softball field and the purchase of new music instruments. The organization…

From Fenway Park to Petco Park, ballparks will again be buzzing with real fans, rather than pumped-in crowd noise, as Fernando Tatis Jr., Randy Arozarena, Juan Soto, Mookie Betts and MVPs José Abreu and Freddie…

A garage fire broke out yesterday afternoon in LaHarpe near the intersection of Main Street and 11th Street. A pumper truck was called in to assist from Iola Fire and Rescue. No one was hurt.

My youngest is now 9, but my memories of his baby and toddlerhood are still quite vivid. Pleasant memories of his first steps and other milestones are interspersed with  traumatic memories of near constant threats…

Clarissa Howell, 11, tries out the new Imagination Playground blocks at the LaHarpe Playground. The blocks were obtained through a Healthy Communities Initiative health equity grant written by Thrive Allen County. (TREVOR HOAG/THE IOLA REGISTER)

TOPEKA — A bill with wide-ranging impacts to education policy and the public school budget passed the Kansas House by a narrow margin Tuesday despite bipartisan concerns over several provisions. House Bill 2119, the Student…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kansas are joining GOP colleagues nationwide in trying to tighten voting laws, advancing a measure Wednesday that would make it harder for churches, civic groups, neighbors and candidates…

TOPEKA — Sen. Pat Pettey raised concerns during Senate debate Wednesday with jettisoning “what really works to help students learn” in favor of requiring high schoolers to pass a 60-question civics test before they receive…

Kristi Ann Rodriguez, 39, died Friday, March 26, 2021, at her home in Topeka. She was born on October 15, 1981, in Iola, the daughter of Bobby Ray and Mary Katherine (Shults) Craig. Kristi was…