The works of Gary Hawk will be the focus of Sunday’s Allen County Historical Society meeting. Debbie Smail, the late Iola artist’s daughter, will lead the 3 p.m. program at the Frederick Funston Meeting Hall…

Despite their prodigious success at livestock shows, county and state fairs and other competitions, neither Brody nor Kyser Nemecek have stopped to tally up the hardware. Neither has much of an idea of how many…

CHANUTE — Brynleigh Shultz, age 8, entered 4-H this past year with a delighted enthusiasm and a love for animals. When a neighbor offered her a newborn calf to use as a 4-H project, Brynleigh…

Life is returning to normal one week after the July 14 storm blasted Iola and much of Allen County. Power was restored Wednesday to the remaining individual homes that sustained damage to their electric lines…

Ryan Diehl, son of Shirley and the late Richard Diehl of Iola, was recently awarded the 2022 National Collegiate Honors Council Ron Brandolini Award for Excellence. The award recognizes a two-year college honors director or…

FORT SCOTT — Jason Kegler, who formerly served as an admissions counselor and coached women’s basketball at Allen Community College, has been named the next college president at Fort Scott Community College. The FSCC Board…

Allen County voters could decide whether to approve a courthouse remodel as early as November. Plans call for a new, second courtroom — identical in size and design — to be built to the south…

MORAN — Doug Dix is quite a shutterbug. If there’s something worth seeing, the 10-year-old son of Darrell and Sara Dix is usually not far away armed with his Kodak digital camera, scouting for the…

Cleanup along the Southwind Rail Trail, the hiking and biking corridor connecting Iola and Humboldt that sustained significant damage in last week’s wind storm, received quite a boost Wednesday. A team of Kansas Department of…

In just one hour after Friday’s storm passed, Allen County’s dispatchers handled nearly twice as many calls compared to the total of an average day. Between 6 and 7 p.m. on Friday, the dispatch center…