Humboldt High School crowned Drew Wilhite and Kirsten Kobold as king and queen of the 2021 Homecoming. The Cubs faced off against the Jayhawk-Linn Jayhawks, and were leading 38-18 at the half.

Good children’s literature is a serious business. Not serious as in boring or “improving,” but serious in attention and ambition, serious about beauty and wonder, about engaging the brain but also the heart, about sadness…

Last summer’s wave of statue removals across America may have felt transformative, but it didn’t significantly alter America’s statuary landscape: The almost 50,000 monuments that remain in place around the nation overwhelmingly depict white males…

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly this week signed an executive order to create a child advocate office. The Topeka Capital-Journal’s Jason Tidd reported the independent Division of the Child Advocate will be focused on child welfare…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Roger Marshall won’t let people forget he’s a doctor, putting “Doc” in the letterhead of his U.S. Senate office’s news releases. But when he talks about COVID-19 vaccines, some doctors and…

Invariably, some losses sting a bit more than others in a long football season. For Iola High’s Mustangs, Friday’s 23-20 setback to Prairie View is gonna leave a mark. The Buffalos stormed back from a…

LOS ANGELES — Artist Mipa Shin sits on a low metal stool next to her pottery wheel and prepares to talk houseplants. Smiling, pointing to the planters that line the shelves of her single-car-garage-turned-ceramics-studio, her…

TANACROSS, Alaska (AP) — One Alaska Native village knew what to do to keep out COVID-19. They put up a gate on the only road into town and guarded it round the clock. It was…

Today concludes National Newspaper Week, a time when newspapers take the opportunity to toot their horns. Hear it? Yes, it’s grown fainter.  Truth is, small town newspapers like the Register are fewer and farther between…

Think of it as a theater production. The curtain opens on a young man, following a trail through the woods. Along the way, he meets a romantic interest, ends up in a new place and…