Low and behold, after 40 years I hear from a private investigator working Cold Case Kansas wanting any information, names, etc., on the matter of Sally Hutton.They said that so far the only information they…

As French workers organize to protest raising the retirement age from 60 to 62 and fight against moves to lower pension payments from 60 percent of earnings at retirement, the prospect looms that the Social…

Kansas will be in the national news again come fall. That’s when the United States Supreme Court will consider whether Fred Phelps and his family have the right to carry obnoxious signs at the funerals…

Anne Kazmierczak’s story on Mary Ramsay’s garden in today’s Register tells you all you need to know about the satisfactions that come from growing things you can eat.The Ramsey garden may or may not break…

A Walmart employee in Wichita was fired for saving the company a $600 shoplifting loss. Heather Ravenstein saw a man walk out with a computer he hadn’t paid for, accosted  him, grabbed the computer and…

A funny thing is happening on the way to the future. More and more scientists believe that climate change is under way and people are causing it. At the same time, more and more in…

Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana bashes the federal government loudly, regularly, over the oil spill in the Gulf. The oil staining Louisiana’s beaches, devastating its marshlands, killing its fishing industry and threatening to kill what’s…

In the summer of 1972 our family was an intermittent host in Rocky Mountain National Park to Ineke and Nikki, an energetic, attractive pair of teenage girls from Holland. They were there because they were…

The U.S. Forest Service says it may start charging hikers for permits to walk up some of the fourteeners in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Colorado to pay for building and maintaining  the trails…

Who wants to close the low-water bridge over Elm Creek on State Street to fishing? We vote no.We have lived south of the area for more than 50 years and average more than twice a…