The Yates Center Wildcats look to rebound after taking a 10-0 and 16-0 sweep to Olpe in Monday’s season opener.  Olpe’s pitchers combined for a nine-strikeout, no-hitter in the first game.  They held Yates Center…

They are certainly ready for their closeups. Five Iola Middle School students showed off their acting and oratory chops Monday to the USD 257 Board of Education as they worked their way through a series…

The Allen County Farmers Market is hosting an informational meeting for vendors at 6 p.m., Thursday, in the Riverside Park community building. Board Secretary Debbie Bearden noted that both past and new vendors are welcome…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The United States said Tuesday an agreement was reached to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea as it wrapped up three days of talks with Ukrainian and Russian delegations in…

A longstanding club at Allen Community College is getting a much needed boost in awareness. During Monday evening’s Iola Council meeting, council member Josiah D’Albini spoke about the Scarlet & Black Club. D’Albini, who also…

The annual exchange meeting of the Prairie Rose 4-H Club and the Seekers Not Slackers Club of Anderson County was held on Monday, March 17. Sophia Heim presented a project talk about her rocketry project.…

Trustees from a pair of Montgomery County community colleges want to ask voters to approve a consolidation plan. Trustees for Independence and Coffeyville community colleges voted unanimously to adopt a preliminary agreement for consolidation, the…

Bonita Eileen (Bonnie) Steward, 78, of Iola, passed away Friday, March 21, 2025, at her residence. Bonnie was born April 30, 1946, in Pittsburg, to Oral Del Roy Martin and Dorothy (Darrow) Martin. The family…

After living a full and adventurous life of 96 years, Alice Walker of rural Blue Mound passed away Thursday, March 20, 2025. Alice Amy Frazier was born in Kingston, N.Y., on Sept. 3, 1928, to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s top intelligence officials stressed to Congress the threat they said was posed by international criminal gangs, drug cartels and human smuggling, testifying in a hearing Tuesday that unfolded against…