Donnie Dale McDonald died Thursday, May 22, 2025, at Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka, surrounded by his loved ones. Donnie was born to Steve and Mary McDonald on March 11, 1976 in Iola. Donnie lived…

Cecelia Maureen (Percival) Orcutt, age 79, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Saturday morning, May 24, 2025, at Heartland Meadows in Iola. She was born Jan. 14, 1946, in the Salina area, daughter of the late…

The Iola City Council will decide at its June 9 meeting whether to allow extended fireworks sales, although prospects look iffy. Currently, fireworks sales are allowed in Iola from outside the current eight-day window, from…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Planned Parenthood halted abortions in Missouri on Tuesday after the state’s top court ordered new rulings in the tumultuous legal saga over a ban that voters struck down last November.…

The Iola Mustangs officially kicked off the summer season with the first of a four-day basketball camp Tuesday as they rebuild ahead of the 2025-2026 season. After bowing out of March’s regional tournament with a…

More than two decades ago we blew the whistle at Enron and WorldCom, industry giants whose spectacular falls revealed two of the largest accounting fraud scandals in American history. We know the destruction that fraud…

Area athletes will run, jump and throw their way to state track and field with hopes of immortality as they prepare to compete in Friday and Saturday’s state tournament in Wichita. Kansas State High School…

The Iola High School Athletic Department recently unveiled a slew of summer activities meant to enhance the skills of area high school and youth athletes.  The Iola High School boys and girls basketball teams will…

After taking the regional title last Wednesday, the Humboldt Cubs will make their 2025 state tournament debut Thursday in Manhattan. With the location of the state tournament now locked down after Kansas State High School…

NPR and three of its member stations filed suit in federal court Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s White House over the president’s executive order to block funding for public media. Trump’s order called for an…