A bipartisan bill introduced in Kansas would prohibit students across the state from using cell phones during school hours. The bill would ban phones during “instructional time,” which would be from the start of the…

Iola High School students are using a home basketball game Friday as an opportunity to bring attention to mental health and suicide prevention.  The game will feature a “green out” organized by Mustangs for Mental…

Youngsters will be given free rein at the Iola Public Library this month. “Loose in the Library,” an evening of pizza, games and a scavenger hunt, will be capped with a library-wide game of hide-and-seek…

TOPEKA — As freshmen legislators last year, Rep. Allen Reavis and Rep. Lon Pishny began having conversations about about the unspoken impact state laws and regulations have on city and county governments. Bills were being…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States seized two sanctioned oil tankers linked to Venezuela in back-to-back actions in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea, officials said Wednesday, and is removing sanctions to enable the…

Americans should eat more whole foods and protein, fewer highly processed foods and less added sugar, according to the latest edition of federal nutrition advice released Wednesday by the Trump administration. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture…

TOPEKA — Jordan Chessher senses an urgency surrounding an effort to increase the criminal penalties in Kansas for child endangerment. Fatal and near-fatal cases involving children across Kansas have stuck with him “because warning signs…

Undersheriff Nate Jackson outlined a new community engagement effort for commissioners Tuesday morning designed to connect veterans with services and mental health support. Jackson told Allen County Commissioners the initiative grew out of monthly collaborative…

GARNETT — Anderson County commissioners have established new regulations governing the placement of solar farms. The regulations were approved after a two-year moratorium on all industrial solar projects, the Anderson County Review reported. Under the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters angry over Iran’s ailing economy conducted a sit-in Tuesday at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, witnesses said, with security forces ultimately firing tear gas and dispersing demonstrators as the rest of the…