Kenleigh Westhoff, a senior at Iola High School, has earned a place on the national stage with her heartfelt and innovative FCCLA project, “Birthday Celebration Kits.” After receiving top honors at the state conference on…

HUMBOLDT — Beth Barlow admits she’d given little thought to investing in renewable energy in the past. “People have emailed us, asking if we’d consider solar, and I’d always dismissed those,” she said.  “And then,…

Nicole Trester, left, visits with her son, Iola Elementary School fifth-grader Roudy Earleywine Thursday during lunch period. The school invited parents and grandparents to eat with their students.

Navigators, who serve as a guide to help people select and enroll in health insurance plans on the federal marketplace, are likely to be harder to find in Kansas because of federal funding cuts. Those workers…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday urged Congress to “push hard for more Daylight at the end of a day” in his latest dig at the semiannual changing of clocks. Trump, in a…

BEIJING (AP) — China announced Friday that it will raise tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125% — the latest salvo in an escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies that has rattled markets…

TOPEKA — A major health insurance company lost out on a bid to continue its role as one of Kansas’ Medicaid providers, and the state Legislature passed a law to avoid a repeat. Aetna Better…

The Trump administration recently nixed a rule proposed by President Joe Biden that would have made it easier for 7.4 million Americans to afford anti-obesity medications called GLP-1s. This was a mistake. These drugs, like…

In a game that had to end sometime, the Humboldt Cubs fell to the Chanute Blue Comets 1-0 Wednesday. With both teams locked in a pitcher’s duel heading into extra innings, Chanute broke the 0-0…

BURLINGTON — Humboldt High School freshman Connor Newman continues turning heads on the golf course after taking the top spot in Wednesday’s Burlington Invitational.  Newman, who won the Caney Valley Invitational earlier this month, proved…