Sky watchers in southeast Kansas will have the chance to watch a total lunar eclipse early Tuesday morning.  A lunar eclipse takes place when the full moon slips in to the shadow of the Earth.…

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday softened its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention new recommendations are an…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The bad news is that no one won Wednesday night’s huge $1.2 billion Powerball jackpot. The good news is that means the prize has grown even larger to $1.5 billion…

Plains folk and prairie landscapes are the subject of “40 Years in the Flint Hills, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Iola Public Library. Photographer Mark Feiden, a sixth-generation Kansan,…

LOS ANGELES — For almost two years, COVID-19 vaccine holdouts have been the objects of earnest pleading and financial inducements, of social-media shaming and truth campaigns. They’ve missed weddings, birthday celebrations and recitals, and even…

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that in its continuing efforts to tamp down inflation, it would raise interest rates yet again by another three-quarters of a point to a target range of 3.75 to 4%.…

The ordinary brown brick building, tucked within a nondescript block on a street in Delaware, would probably not garner much attention if it weren’t for the razor wire and armed guards outside — hints that…

WASHINGTON — Five states will vote next week on whether to join the 21 states and territories that have legalized recreational marijuana for adults. But the federal government is still stuck on whether to remove…

TOPEKA — Kansans who urged lawmakers to fix the state’s health care system weeks ago say their situations have become untenable. Kathy Keck, a mother of five kids, three of whom have developmental and medical…

Miss Amy Jones has moved her business, Jones Typewriter and Book Store, from an upstairs room over Iola State Bank to 113½ E. Madison over Anderson Plumbing Service. Miss Jones has been selling books, typewriters,…