The clatter of colorful tiles echoed through the Iola Public Library Tuesday afternoon, sounding almost like a flock of birds chirping back and forth. For the growing number of local residents discovering the game of…

It was a brutally hot summer day in 2018 when Donna Houser was in Wichita for a doctor’s appointment. As she arrived at the doctor’s office, Houser saw an amusing sight. A smartly dressed group…

TOPEKA — Four Johnson County public school districts want to sue the state of Kansas for more than 15 years of inadequate special education funding. The districts formed the Kansas Public School Funding Coalition and…

The Allen County Sheriff’s Department is teaming up with Zero Reasons Why and the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center to host a fun run May 30 in Iola. Proceeds will go to support Zero Reasons…

MORAN — Nancy Houk, Warren Johnson and Kris Smith all have filed to keep their seats on the Moran City Council. The incumbents are the only ones to file so far, in advance of the…

WASHINGTON — Senators at a Commerce Committee panel hearing aired concerns Wednesday about rapidly growing prediction markets, appearing largely unswayed by industry arguments that they are not a form of betting subject to state regulation. Members…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence — nearly 42 years — to the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted in a staggering $250 million fraud…

For years, Allen Regional Transit (A.R.T.) has operated out of a small single-room office tucked into the back of the Recovery House at 16 N. Buckeye St. in Iola. On June 1, the growing non-profit…

Carefully walking between rows of sprouting plants, Donavan Lawrence gives a tour of the St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church community garden in Derby, Kansas. The caretaker points out the spiral-shaped herb garden and elevated plots for…

TOPEKA — Secretary of State Scott Schwab held up a stack of lottery regulation documents stained with a ring of coffee. He was illustrating the office’s outdated filing cabinet system, which is being modernized for…