When opportunity came knocking, Allen County was ready. For almost two years, county leaders had been laying the groundwork to provide infrastructure needs at the airport — roads, water, electricity, natural gas and broadband internet.…

TOPEKA — A Kansas bill signed into law Thursday spans the gamut of tax policy, packaging more than two dozen measures amending property, sales and income tax laws. The massive House Bill 2239, backed by…

Nearly 1,000 high school students visited Iola on Wednesday as the school hosted a state music contest. Iola High School had a rare opportunity to serve as host for the Kansas State High School Activities…

Yet again, the U.S. is trudging into what could be another COVID-19 surge, with cases rising nationally and in most states after a two-month decline. One big unknown? “We don’t know how high that mountain’s…

Ever since Jonathan Goering moved to Iola in June 2020, he’d heard a recurring theme: the Allen County Regional Airport has untapped potential.   “Over and over people would tell me the airport is a…

Government regulation of women who become pregnant from rape has suddenly grabbed national headlines. That’s because state legislatures around America are considering numerous controversial bills that would ban abortion access for these women.   In…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Sea urchins are dying across the Caribbean at a pace scientists say could rival a mass die-off that last occurred in 1983, alarming many who warn the trend could…

HUMBOLDT — A trip to an air show for his birthday made quite an impact on Cooper Woods. Woods was in the eighth grade when he saw the spectacle of the gleaming aircraft soaring overhead.…

St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, 206 S. Walnut, has completed a three-year renovation of the church and parish hall building. The congregation will have services for the first time in the renovated church on Palm Sunday,…

TOPEKA — An audit by the Medicaid inspector general in Kansas identified oversight shortcomings in the state’s home and community based service programs that raised questions of potential overpayment to managed-care companies and control weaknesses…