With multiple regional meets scheduled in a little under two weeks, area coaches gave their junior varsity athletes one more evaluation in live competition at Monday’s Iola High School Junior Varsity Invitational. Despite being one…

Marmaton Valley senior pitcher Tyler Lord will take his talents to Central Christian College, McPherson, after accepting a scholarship offer last week.  Lord has been a terror in multiple sports in the Three Rivers League…

MELVERN — The Yates Center Wildcats could not translate their hitting success into wins as they wrapped up the regular season with a pair of losses, 16-6, 14-7,  to the Marais Des Cygnes Valley Trojans…

OBERLIN, Kansas — Steve Hirsch serves as county attorney in four counties and as city attorney in 20 communities in western Kansas … and he has even more jobs. The 64-year-old also files income tax…

The Country Club Plaza has never been just a place to shop. For more than a century, the outdoor mall has been the heartbeat of this community — a place to gather, celebrate and experience…

Economist Milton Friedman is often credited with noting, “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” State governments haven’t done much better…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take…

After more than 12 years leading Allen County EMS through departmental restructuring, staffing shortages, rising costs and the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, EMS Director Michael Burnett has stepped away from the position he held…

TOPEKA — Kansas utility regulators handed a win Tuesday to landowners concerned about a transmission line bisecting large swaths of prairie grassland in the state’s south-central region. The Kansas Corporation Commission voted unanimously to approve…

There was a dispute between Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein dealing with how quickly or slowly time passes. Einstein, in his theory of relativity, maintained that the faster an object moves, it has the effect…