A Women’s Health Fair is Saturday, April 27 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas, 2051 N. State St.  The health center is using the event to raise…

Are we sure Forrest Gump wasn’t talking about high school softball, instead of chocolates, when he noted you never know what you’re gonna get? Take Iola High’s Mustangs, who entered Tuesday’s doubleheader without the pitching…

Iola High’s baseball team gave the local fans both kinds of victories to savor Tuesday. The first, a tense, edge-of-your-seat pitcher’s duel, saw Iola’s Korbin Cloud come out just ahead of Osawatomie’s Cooper Peterson in…

TOPEKA — Hundreds of people have signed a petition asking for a polling location on the Fort Hays State University campus, continuing a long-running dispute between university students and the county clerk who administers elections.…

Maria Conception Melendez, age 74, of Humboldt, passed away Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at St. Luke’s on the Plaza, Kansas City, Mo. Connie was born Dec. 10, 1949, in Chanute, to John G. Borjas and…

Organizers of the Gene Farrow Invitational Track Meet had to deal with all sorts of Mother Nature’s shenanigans Tuesday. The meet, hosted by Waverly High School and held at Iola’s Riverside Park, featured a brief-but-intense…

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson, facing a choice between potentially losing his job and advancing aid for Ukraine, forged ahead Wednesday toward a vote later this week on a package of funding that…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s frontline pitchers were on point Tuesday. The Cubs’ Logan Page tossed a three-hit shutout in a 1-0 nailbiter over Caney Valley, before Kyler Isbell was nearly as effective in the nightcap,…

Community development doesn’t always mean “new,” Emily Cowan, president of the Abandoned Atlas Foundation, told a group at the Allen County Historical Society’s spring meeting Tuesday evening at the Iola Public Library. “That’s a mindset…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s softball team came within an inning of posting one of their most impressive sweeps of the season. But the Lady Cubs could not hold onto the lead in Game 2 of…