On Thursday, the technology behemoth Amazon canceled its plans to build a new headquarters in New York City.  The decision robs the city of 25,000 potential jobs at a value of $2.5 billion a year…

A bit of serendipity helped local resident Chris Holloway save an Iola man’s porch from burning. Holloway told the Register he was traveling along Lincoln Street Wednesday morning, when he saw an elderly man struggling…

Think of soil remediation at the proposed elementary site as a five-pronged approach, says USD 257 Board of Education president Dan Willis. The process involves SJCF Architects, a firm working for the school district; the…

The Mustangs have found their new normal and they’re loving it.  On Tuesday night, the Iola boys (8-8) carved up an Osawatomie team, 77-53, that beat them by a point a month ago. On Saturday…

You could feel a sense of relief Tuesday evening when, for the first time in almost a month, the Iola girls’ basketball team got themselves a win.  The solid 43-20 plunking of Osawatomie broke a…

TOPEKA — Bob Johnson, longtime reporter for the Iola Register, was awarded the Gaston Outstanding Mentor Award at Friday night’s awards banquet for the Kansas Press Association. Johnson was noted for his unflagging enthusiasm for…

I was born and raised in Topeka by my single mother, a descendant of Irish immigrants; my father is African-American and Native American. I often joke that at birth I won the “Minority Bingo.” My…

This is the first in a weekly series of articles on the proposed school bond issue to be decided by voters on April 2. When Dr. Charles Wanker, chief of staff at Allen County Regional…

When Iola lineman Nic Zimmerman waded into his first practice for the Blue-Grey All-American Bowl at South Grand Prairie High School in a suburb of Dallas, something dawned on him.  The Mustang senior looked out…

It takes a lot of guts to give up a steady income to pursue your dream. And to do so at 62? Well, that takes somebody like Betty Hendricks. Hendricks is retiring Friday after working…