The Iola Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated some of the community’s biggest champions Thursday, the centerpiece of its annual awards dinner. Six awards were handed out during the evening, the most prominent of which —…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly signed a bipartisan bill Thursday passed by the Kansas Legislature to establish a state sports authority to offer oversight of construction and management of a $3 billion stadium for the…

Beneath the screaming and the shouting — the “noise”  — lawmakers have been able to accomplish more than what the public realizes, Rep. Derek Schmidt said Thursday. Schmidt, who represents Kansas’ 2nd Congressional District in…

It’s barely an exaggeration to note the Iola Municipal Band is almost as old as Iola, the town. The band’s weekly summertime concert series has been a fixture here since 1871, the longest continually performing…

A pinwheel coloring contest was held Thursday, sponsored by Hope Unlimited and CASA of the 31st District. Students from 18 schools in grades K-3 participated. Pinwheels, a symbol for the child abuse prevention movement, have…

A Marmaton Valley senior’s idea to address gaps in financial literacy has earned her top honors in an entrepreneurship competition. Sophia Heim earned first place at the 3rd Annual Allen County Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge held…

I’ve noticed this week that the volunteers that had been greeting us at the door of my 4-year-old’s child care center aren’t there anymore.  I take it as another small sign of normalcy, which many…

In 2006, three days after a 14-year-old boy named José was shot and killed in front of his house, I rang his mother’s doorbell holding nothing but a handwritten condolence note from a city councilman.…

HUMBOLDT — The Humboldt Lady Cubs fell Wednesday to the Chanute Comets 11-3 in the first of their two contests against local rivals. It’s a busy week on the diamond for the Lady Cubs, who…