WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates, notching a victory that President Joe Biden and his…

WELLSVILLE — The season is over for Humboldt High School’s football team. The Cubs lost 49-8 to Wellsville in the regional round of the playoffs Friday night. The game was out of hand early in…

Iola Pharmacy began in 1973 when pharmacists Jim Arnott and Bret Lawrence purchased Cooksey’s Drug Store at 1 E. Madison, followed by the purchase of Eyler Drug, formerly Cook’s Drug Store, in 1975. In 1987,…

According to a national study published by the American Medical Association last month, 65% of Kansas children have elevated levels of lead in their blood — 15 points higher than the national average. There is…

Dear fellow parents: Please get your kids vaccinated. I’m doing so this week. As a pediatrician at Duke Health, I’ve seen many children and families suffer from COVID-19 over the last 20 months. The parents…

The garbage is still being collected, the streets are still being patrolled, the fires are still being doused and the ambulance calls are still being answered — and 92% of the city’s nearly 400,000 employees…

It’s been two-and-a-half years since Sharla Miller lost her son, Matt, to suicide.   In that time, Miller has tried to make sense of her son’s decision by not only personally gaining a better understanding…

“Everyone is a reader. Some just haven’t found their favorite book yet.” — Anonymous Music teacher Mikaela Crotchett wasn’t a big reader until she came to Iola schools this fall. She soon learned she’d need…

Try to improve just a tiny bit today. That’s the lesson authors Chad Morris and Shelly Brown brought to Iola students and others this week. The authors came to Iola on Thursday to talk about…

The United States is steadily chipping away at vaccine hesitancy and driving down COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations to the point that schools, governments and corporations are lifting mask restrictions yet again. Nearly 200 million Americans…