Traffic along U.S. 169 was anything but normal on a harrowing Monday for motorists as emergency crews responded to a pair of accidents hours apart along the same stretch of road. The first, occurring just…

Joey Berntsen emerged unscathed, and feeling not a little fortunate, after being freed from a grain bin north of LaHarpe Thursday evening. Berntsen, 66, had been working on top of a pile of corn when…

Two people were taken to the hospital Monday morning following a three-vehicle accident south of Iola. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Anthony T. Edmondson, 36, Lawrence, was northbound on U.S. 169 in his 1999…

Brad Henderson knows community colleges can change lives. After all, attending one changed his.  Fresh out of high school, Henderson felt stuck in a job he didn’t like. He was unsure of what he wanted…

NEOSHO COUNTY — A Uniontown man is behind bars in connection with a murder that occurred in Stark on Saturday. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation announced in a press release Sunday the arrest of Luke…

Construction in Iola’s Cedarbrook Third Addition is moving forward steadily, bringing the community closer to a goal of expanding housing options. Three more homes are being built in the subdivision on Iola’s north side of…

LAHARPE — It took a couple of swings to get it done Wednesday, but LaHarpe has a 2026 spending plan in place. City Council members approved the city’s budget, which will see the ad valorem…

Advocates from Allen County Recycling will speak Monday with Iola and county leaders about their vision of a countywide recycling program. The topic has been discussed at both Iola City Council and Allen County Commission…

Emergency crews successfully extricated a man who had become partially buried inside a grain bin filled with corn Thursday evening. The Allen County Sheriff’s Department reported the man, whose name has not been released, did…

For more than 50 years, communities within what had been the Kansas PRIDE network have led volunteer efforts to make their hometowns better places to live. And while the organization has a new moniker and…