HUMBOLDT — “On May 9, a tragedy struck our city,” Humboldt mayor Nobby Davis said to a packed room at the onset of Monday evening’s city council meeting. “We ended up losing a brave, longtime…

HUMBOLDT — Kim Houdashelt, 64, of Humboldt, was identified as the victim of a drowning over the weekend in the Neosho River near Humboldt. In a moving report, Humboldt Police Chief Shannon Moore relayed Saturday’s…

HUMBOLDT — A man died Sunday after he jumped into the Neosho River Saturday morning to rescue a child who had fallen into the water. Humboldt Police Chief Shannon Moore confirmed the incident occurred, but…

A bridge on U.S. 169 spanning the Neosho River has been reduced to one-lane traffic, in order to perform bridge repair. The bridge is on the Allen/Neosho county line.  Traffic will be guided in the…

A body, believed to be that of a 12-year-old boy struck and killed by a train near Erie Wednesday, has been found. Neosho County Sheriff Greg Taylor announced Sunday that the body had been found…

Tim Blankenship, the 8th grade science teacher at Iola Middle School, went to Wyoming to hunt for fossils in 2003, with minimal success. A couple of weeks later, he returned to his farm in Chetopa,…

“Am I going to die today?” Billie Call asked her son, Terry. “Is this the day?”  “I told her no, that we’d find a way to get her out,” Terry Call said Thursday.  But in…

More than a dozen bald eagles, juveniles and adults, stopped for lunch on Thursday afternoon at the Neosho River near the spillway at U.S. 54, west of Iola. The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks…

OSWEGO — The Labette County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a fire beneath a bridge spanning the Neosho River. The fire, discovered Saturday, marked the second time in the past few months logs accumulated beneath the…

Riley Whitworth of Humboldt, right, teamed up with Eric Mussulman of Chanute to land this 54-pound flathead catfish monday evening from the Neosho River near Humboldt.