“You’ve got to love life to have life, and you’ve got to have life to love life…It’s what they call a vicious circle.” — Thornton Wilder, “Our Town” Officially, Thornton Wilder’s masterpiece “Our Town” is…

MORAN — On any given afternoon, as the school day winds down and students scatter, Shelby Sprague’s workday is just getting started. A Marmaton Valley senior, Sprague runs S2 Livestock, a goat business that she…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Labor is notifying more than 8,500 individuals that they received overpayments for unemployment insurance, including some issued during the COVID-19 pandemic, and must repay the funds. Nearly half owe…

Minnesota State Sen. Matt Klein, a Democrat, was suspended from Kalshi after the prediction market company discovered the candidate for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District had bet on the outcome of his own election. Klein, who…

Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over its approval of the first British Petroleum drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which occurred 16 years ago this week. The…

MORAN — It’s been nearly 30 years since Marmaton Valley voters have been asked to approve any kind of construction project. They may be asked again soon, perhaps as early as November. More than 230…

The Taste of Southeast Kansas Food Festival will make its debut in Iola on Saturday, May 2, offering residents a chance to sample local dishes and meet the people behind them. The event will run…

TOPEKA — A Kansas task force is running out of time to craft a new public school funding formula, which the Legislature and the state’s next governor must agree upon before the current framework expires.…

The Kansas City Royals will team up with hometown company Hallmark Cards to build a new ballpark at Crown Center, with a promised $3 billion downtown campus of mixed-use development in the surrounding 85 acres.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the U.S. military will no longer require all American troops to get the flu vaccine, citing “medical autonomy” and religious freedom. “The notion that a…