There was a collective intake of breath Tuesday morning when Fort Scott-based architect Rick Zingre presented Allen County commissioners with the proposed cost for the scheduled ambulance stations in Humboldt and Moran. With each building…

Months of discussion and debate came to a head Tuesday morning when the Allen County commission followed its planning board’s recommendation and denied Mid-States Materials and landowner David Gant a permit to install a rock…

Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy urged county commissioners to consider hiring Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc., a privately-owned company that specializes in overseeing and delivering medical care to inmates at correctional facilities. Not only would the…

Representatives from Mid-States Materials appeared before the county commission Tuesday morning to revive their request to create a rock quarry on the south side of Humboldt Hill. The land between Humboldt and Iola is currently…

To answer Humboldt resident Larry Mendoza?s question, ?Why weren?t there any updates or maintenance on local two-lane roads before closing portions of 169?? the short answer is: Don?t know, but hindsight is 20-20. When KDOT…

The construction of new ambulance stations in Humboldt and Moran took another step forward Tuesday morning when Allen County commissioners met with Fort Scott-based project architect Rick Zingre. In April, the commission voted to accept…

The passion of Shilo Eggers, president of the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce, is to be commended. In discussions Tuesday with Allen County commissioners, Eggers said she believes the long-ailing chamber will soon be turning…

After entertaining 30 minutes of pointed dissent from the president of the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce, commissioners chose to again postpone a decision on whether to provide Thrive Allen County with the $50,000 required…

Thrive Allen County interim CEO Bill Maness appeared before Allen County commissioners Monday morning to ask once more for the $50,000 required for the creation of VISIT Allen, an initiative designed to increase tourism in…

After describing the increased disrepair affecting many of the county’s secondary roads — a consequence of the construction project currently jamming parts of U.S. 169 — Allen County commissioners were able to secure a verbal…