For as long as Anderson Plumbing has been a part of the Iola community — 120 years and counting — the company has never really had what could be considered a storefront. That will change…

It’s time to abolish Kansas winter.  There is everything wrong with these winters and nothing good about them.  Growing up the son of a mining engineer who moved from project to project throughout the American…

The success of “Tiger King” has me wondering if executives at Netflix would be interested in a story called “Potato King.”  While I patiently await their response — no word yet — I’ll try it…

Downtown Iola will be a little less bright for the holiday season this year. The city will not light the buildings surrounding the courthouse square for Christmas because the old strands have begun to fail.…

Iola Elementary School student Cayleigh Rutherford gets a ride in a slingshot driven by owner Bill Hobbs last week. Rutherford was the first IES student to read books about each of the 50 states and…

The Regional Rural Technical Center at LaHarpe continues to grow. More and more students are taking classes at the RRTC, as new programs are added including the most recent, automotive technology. The building itself has…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of borrowers was handed another legal loss Monday when a federal appeals court panel agreed to a preliminary injunction halting…

With a $13 million road rebuild looming, Iola City Council members discussed how they plan to pay for it at Monday night’s meeting. A charter ordinance allowing the city to incur that much debt took…

ST. MARYS — Pottawatomie Wabaunsee Regional Library is decorated for the holidays, with a snow-filled tiny Christmas village placed in the center of the book stacks. There’s a princess mural on one wall, complete with…

A week of counting ballots suggests Kansas voters narrowly rejected an amendment to the state constitution that would have shifted regulatory clout from the governor to the Legislature. It would have given the Legislature more…