TOPEKA — Kansas House Democrats opened their “fight back” tour Thursday night in the capital city, drawing more than 220 people to sit through rain showers and talk about the importance of strengthening their party’s…

The Iola Masonic Lodge No. 38 will host a first responder dinner from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, at 201 W. Madison Ave. in Iola. Law enforcement, fire, medical service and dispatch personnel are invited…

Arrest reported Iola police officers arrested Gioadccino Aiello shortly after midnight Tuesday morning in the 1400 block of North Cottonwood Street for a warrant out of Johnson County. Officers arrested Helen Gray on May 24…

Lighthouse Ministries, a Beacon of Light and Hope hosted a worship service at the bandstand on Iola’s square Thursday evening, leading an audience of about 100 in praise songs that were followed by a sermon…

MANHATTAN — The Humboldt Cubs are one game away from playing for a state championship after defeating Russell-Victoria, 10-3, in the state tournament opener at Tointon Family Stadium on the campus of Kansas State University. …

BURLINGTON — Federal funding to help launch a $1.9 billion computer chip manufacturing complex in rural Coffey County has been denied, the Coffey County Republican reported. County officials announced the bad news at their May…

Nayib Bukele’s autocratic tendencies were already clear when he ran for a second term as El Salvador’s president in 2024.  He had extended a “temporary” state of emergency for two years, and used it to…

In 1951, Richard Garwin was 23, a junior physicist working summers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, home of the atomic bomb that had decimated Hiroshima six years before.  Edward Teller, Garwin’s older colleague at the…

GARDEN CITY — The conditions were tough Wednesday, the competition even tougher, and the tension was dialed in at an 11. And Connor Newman was loving every second of it. The Humboldt High freshman tied…

Multiple area football players will strap it up for one last time for a pair of all-star games next month. Three players from Marmaton Valley and Crest will participate in the June 7 Kansas Eight-Man…