Iola High School’s “Honk, Jr.” is dedicated to the kids picked last for a football game, the ones who bring weird foods for lunch, the teenagers who lose sight of who they are as they…

The U.S. Supreme Court has extended through Thursday a pause on lower courts’ orders that the Trump administration authorize a full month of benefits for a food assistance program that 1 in 8 Americans use…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia is set to strike its last circulating penny on Wednesday as the president has canceled the 1-cent coin. President Donald Trump has ordered its demise as costs…

Sheena McGhee snapped this photo of the Aurora Borealis between Colony and Le Roy Tuesday night. Rare geomagnetic storms made the Northern Lights visible to much of the continental United States, even reaching as far…

TOPEKA — South Korean residents who move to Kansas are able to exchange their driver’s licenses for state credentials under an agreement solidified Monday, and Kansans can do the same in South Korea. The agreement…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt Council members agreed to renew the city’s insurance plans for health, dental and vision at their meeting Monday evening.  Health insurance premiums increased by 10% and dental by about 9% for next…

Lois June Drury, 88, of Iola, died Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, Chanute. Lois was born Oct. 8, 1937, in Wisner, Neb., to Clinton Trayler and June (Morgan) Trayler. On…

The local school district’s financial report passed with flying colors according to USD 257’s annual audit. Neil Phillips, CPA with Jarred Gilmore & Phillips, walked school board members through the report at their meeting Monday…

TOPEKA — Kansas turned in a 60-page application last week in hopes of receiving a share of $50 billion in federal money designed to transform rural health. Nearly one-third of Kansans live in rural communities,…

President Donald Trump’s administration returned to the Supreme Court on Monday in a push to keep full payments in the SNAP federal food aid program frozen while the government is shut down, even as some…