Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: High school kid here (16). My parents want me to do summer school and therapy because my grades have slipped. By “slipped,” I mean I got a few…

Brinley McGhee’s passion is turning into a profession. Just days after walking across the stage as a Crest High School graduate, McGhee is focusing her energies full time on expanding her business, Divine Brin. McGhee,…

SAFE BASE, the after-school program in USD 257, and Title I teachers organized a Blue Plate Special dinner and activities on Thursday evening at Iola Elementary School. The theme was car racing, with Humboldt Speedway…

FREDONIA — Humboldt High’s track and field team matched up at the Tri-Valley League meet in Fredonia Thursday.  Various Cubs earned top spots including Peyton Wallace taking first place in the boys 800-, 1600- and…

A Ponca tribe chief whose landmark lawsuit in 1879 established that a Native American is a person under the law was honored Friday with the unveiling of a U.S. Postal Service stamp that features his…

(Editor’s note: Results from Friday’s rubber match in Allen Community College’s Region VI playoff series against Butler were unavailable by press time.) EL DORADO — Butler Community College forced a decisive game 3, preventing Allen…

WASHINGTON — After more than three years and 1.1 million deaths, the United States on Thursday will end the public health emergency for COVID-19 — and Congress is attempting to better prepare for a possible…

The Denver Nuggets are headed to the NBA’s Final Four. The top seed in the Western Conference became the first team to make it to the conference final round of these NBA playoffs, after ousting…

At a time when the Biden administration has its hands full trying to reverse Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and manage a U.S.-China relationship stuck in the doldrums, America’s vast, lethal counterterrorism machine continues to be…

The American Psychological Association has issued its first advisory on social media use in adolescence. What’s most striking in its data-based recommendations is how little we really know about how these apps affect our kids.…