From balancing a $35 million budget to tackling everything from bus routes to vape detectors, the Iola USD 257 Board of Education covered a range of decisions at its Monday night meeting.  The evening began…

HUMBOLDT — City Administrator Cole Herder translated the fact that no one showed up Monday evening to discuss the city’s new $9.2 million budget or the Council’s decision to raise more from its property tax…

Korenne Wolken embraced the opportunity to address a legislative task force looking at special education funding. “The important part is, we had the opportunity to inform legislators of what actually happens,” Wolken said. “I appreciate…

Marmaton Valley High School students took part in a “Zero Reasons Why” session Monday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. “Zero Reasons Why” is a teen-led mental health education and suicide prevention campaign that is…

The New York Times is suing the Federal Bureau of Investigation for allegedly withholding information about a tracking device that a reporter found on his car in Lawrence in October of 2021. The legal complaint…

PARIS (AP) — Legislators toppled France’s government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe’s second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months. Prime Minister François Bayrou was…

After the Trump administration slashed billions in state and local public health funding from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this year, the eventual impact on states split sharply along political lines.…

Scientist Chris Helzer has studied prairies for more than three decades. But he hasn’t always loved these landscapes the way he does now. Though he often spent weekends exploring the outdoors while growing up in…

Indiana bankruptcy lawyer Mark Steven Zuckerberg is suing Meta for repeatedly suspending his work-related Facebook account because the social media company apparently believes he’s impersonating company founder Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. “It’s not funny,” he told…

TOPEKA — In a rare moment of reprieve for U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he faced a grueling group of senators Thursday, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas gave him the opportunity…