Humboldt and Yates Center high schools’ boys and girls basketball teams will open substate action at home this week. The Cubs (13-7) are the fourth seed in their Class 3A substate and will host Osage…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s Cubs broke out of the gates with a flash Friday. The Cubs raced to a double-digit advantage by the end of the first quarter, and were never really threatened down the…

The Humboldt boys rumbled their way to bronze in the Tri-Valley League meet on Thursday afternoon in Fredonia. Brandon Watts was the only Cub to finish first in his respective weight class. In the 285-pound…

Who would buy 48 bottles of water and go about Humboldt handing them out? Vicki Wood did last summer. “I went around wherever there were people, the bank, the library, City Hall,” Vicki said. Why?…

It started as an effort to downsize her toy collection. By the time Tessa Lou Francis finished, she had more than $350 to give away to a local charity. Francis, daughter of Tim and Kelly…

Cofachique Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution members, from left, Marcia Longberg,  Cynthia Geisler, Linda Johnson, Judy Arbeiter, Deborah Jackson, Barbara McIntosh, Beverly Miller, Linda Rubow, Nancy Castellucci and Nelda Cuppy met Saturday…

HUMBOLDT — The next meeting of The Sunflower Quilter’s Guild will be at 10 a.m. Jan. 27 at the Humboldt United Methodist Church, Fellowship Hall, 806 N Ninth St. in Humboldt. The board meeting begins…

MANHATTAN — Several Allen Countians have earned honors for their academic performance in the fall 2019 semester. Honors go to students who maintain a 3.75 grade-point average or above with at least 12 credit hours,…

TOPEKA — Iolans Braden Plumlee and Addison Haar and Quentin Mallette of Humboldt have been named to Washburn University’s fall 2019 Dean’s List. To qualify for the Dean’s List, a student must be enrolled in…

The Neosho River received a clean bill of health from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Wednesday. Ashley Jones-Wisner, a public information officer for KDHE, said the group monitored the river through Monday…