CHANUTE — The battle for the best golfer in Allen County will end in a split after Iola senior Brennen Coffield took first place at Tuesday’s Humboldt Invitational. Entering the tournament as the fifth-ranked 3A…

Multiple area schools hastily rescheduled Tuesday’s contests following a bout of rain pouring through the area. Iola High School officials called Tuesday’s baseball and softball games early in the evening. The Mustangs rescheduled their baseball…

EUREKA — Multiple Humboldt Middle School athletes earned league titles while competing in the Tri-Valley League Junior High Championship Tuesday night. As a team, the seventh Lady Cubs finished third, while the eighth-grade Lady Cubs…

Nathan Fawson has been removed as the chief executive officer of Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center. SEKMHC board attorney Jacob Bielenberg confirmed Fawson’s last day was April 30.  Fawson was placed on 90-day paid administrative…

A leadership change at Allen County EMS was announced at Tuesday’s Allen County Commission meeting. EMS Director Michael Burnett announced he will leave the department next week to accept the EMS director position in Crawford…

For all of Brennen Coffield’s achievements at Iola High School — and there have been a bunch — his work outside the classroom is equally extraordinary. On top of his sterling 4.0 grade-point average, even…

A Pete’s convenience store in Chanute has gone solar, and two Pete’s locations in Allen County will soon do the same.  SEK Solar of Chanute recently announced the completion of a 97-kilowatt system composed of…

Allen County commissioners voted Tuesday to discontinue the county’s membership in the League of Kansas Municipalities after hearing a defense of the organization from Humboldt City Administrator Cole Herder. Herder encouraged commissioners to continue participating…

Multiple area high schools, including Humboldt, Chanute, Parsons, Oswego and Fort Scott, were briefly placed in lockdown Wednesday afternoon, after each was targeted in an apparent “swatting” incident. The Parsons Police Department reported the threats…

PRAIA, Cape Verde (AP) — Two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of infection were evacuated Wednesday from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly outbreak, the U.N. health agency said. The ship departed Cape Verde…