Everything was going Iola High’s way on the softball diamond Friday. The Mustangs put together one of their most complete games of the season, a 12-0 shutout over visiting Field Kindley High School of Coffeyville.…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Iola High faced long odds Friday as the Mustangs hit the road to take on the state’s top-ranked Class 3A team in Kansas City’s Bishop Ward. Not only were the Mustangs…

CHANUTE — Iola High was able to shake off the dust as the Mustangs hit the track Friday at Chanute’s Thad Clements Invitational. The competition marked the first meet for Iola in more than a…

Jarrett Herrmann admitted to feeling a bit different as he and his Hutchinson Community College teammates watched Saturday’s regular season finale at Allen Community College from the visitors dugout. That’s because Herrmann, a former Iola…

I am a lifelong Republican. I am also a longtime NPR listener and supporter and, at times, have been a manager. As you can imagine, I have a few thoughts about the firestorm set off…

COLONY — Roland Weir insisted to anyone who would listen that, despite losing a storied senior class to graduation — which included back-to-back state baseball tournament appearances — he didn’t expect his Crest High Lancers…

The We the People competition has trained young Americans to know and engage in our democratic system for over 30 years. It has long been recorded that Benjamin Franklin, when departing the Constitutional Convention in…

Farmers in the Midwest and Great Plains are planting much less hemp than they were two years ago, according to the most recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But to David Lakeman —…

News reports and updates have been published over the past several weeks about the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) impacting dairy herds in several states. Investigations are ongoing and information continues to surface…

Iola’s FFA team won a state title and Kyser Nemecek secured an individual state medal at the April 29-30 state competition. Iola teams competed in Dairy Cattle Evaluation, Poultry Judging, and Livestock Judging. The poultry…