President Trump views tariffs as a toll that he alone gets to set for access to U.S. markets. Now he’s charging fees on U.S. companies for the purported privilege of exporting artificial-intelligence chips to China.…

A new school year is getting started. Students are looking up their schedules and packing up their bags. One thing they’ll have to ditch this fall? Their cellphones. Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed into law…

The halls of McKinley and Jefferson elementary schools have been quiet for years. No clatter of lunch trays, no shuffle of little feet, no morning announcements crackling through the intercom. But if all goes according…

For years, Iola has had what amounts to a toothless ordinance for when it comes to nuisance properties, City Administrator Matt Rehder noted. It’s about to carry a bigger bite. Rehder presented to City Council…

Traffic along U.S. 169 was anything but normal on a harrowing Monday for motorists as emergency crews responded to a pair of accidents hours apart along the same stretch of road. The first, occurring just…

After months of strength and conditioning programs, recreation and league baseball and softball, swimming and a variety of other summer athletics, the fall season begins Thursday with the first day of practice for many area…

Lexi Strickler, 62, of Iola, passed away Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, at St. Luke’s on the Plaza, Kansas City, Mo. Lexi Marlene Hastings was born to John D. and Mary Ann Stumfoll Hastings Aug. 23,…

Ray Duane Wools of Moran, formerly of Kincaid, died Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025. Ray was born Feb. 22, 1939, to Wayne and Sylvia (Thompson) Wools, near Bush City. He was united in marriage to Grace…

Arrests reported Iola police officers arrested Levi Boan for suspicion of disorderly conduct and Colton Hon for suspicion of battery during a disturbance Sunday evening in the 700 block of North Walnut Street. Kayla Perry…

CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — After an explosion rocked a steel plant outside Pittsburgh, workers scrambled into the wreckage alongside firefighters. A cloud of black smoke rose above a charred pickup truck as rescuers sprayed the scene with…