INDEPENDENCE — The Iola High golf team began its 2023 season at Independence Thursday.  The Mustangs took home sixth place out of 11 schools. Brennan Coffield, a freshman, placed ninth overall, shooting an 84. Xander…

YATES CENTER — The Yates Center High baseball team were in St. Paul on Monday and hosted Jayhawk-Linn Thursday afternoon.  The Wildcats dropped their first matchup at St. Paul despite a gutsy comeback in a…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kevin Gausman pitched six scoreless innings, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Cavan Biggio hit home runs and the Toronto Blue Jays won their third straight game, 6-3, over the Kansas City…

Shohei Ohtani added another unprecedented bulletpoint to his resume Wednesday, becoming the first player in Major League Baseball history called for a pitch clock violation as both a pitcher and a batter in the Angels’…

The road to the NBA Finals now goes through Milwaukee. The road out of the Western Conference goes through Denver, for the first time ever. And the rest of the top half of the Eastern…

TOPEKA — Lehigh Portland is set to become Kansas’s 28th state park, fulfilling a dream 45 years in the making for local business representatives. The final legislative hurdles were cleared in short order Thursday when…

Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: My aunt died a couple of weeks ago. It was a bit of a surprise to the family. We knew something was up, because she wasn’t as responsive…

The expulsion of two Tennessee lawmakers for daring to speak out for gun control is a shocking assault on democracy and speech — in an era in which assaults on democracy and speech are becoming…

On Thursday, ProPublica published a blockbuster report suggesting ethical recklessness on the part of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The report details years of luxury trips and other gifts that Justice Thomas apparently received courtesy…

For the past several years Kansas families have suffered from a systemic lack of childcare.  Access to childcare is a problem in both urban and rural areas. 104 of the state’s 105 counties have a…