The discovery of a body in southern Allen County may have resolved the 5½-year mystery of a missing Iola man. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) and the Allen County Sheriff’s Office are conducting an…

HUMBOLDT — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has rescinded a stream advisory for an unnamed tributary of Neosho River near Humboldt. Water samples show no health risk associated with the river, according…

HUMBOLDT — Residents and animals should not enter the water near the Neosho River and its tributary near Humboldt because of possible contamination due to an improvement project. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment…

The Neosho River faces a flood warning until Saturday morning. The river reached flood stage Thursday morning and was expected to crest at 26.5 feet just after midnight, according to the National Weather Service. The…

PRATT, Kan. (AP) — Kansas fisheries officials are working to determine how a 39.5 lb. alligator gar ended up in a state river. The Kansas Wildlife & Parks said an angler pulled the gar last…

“I’m no hero,” said Bill Mentzer. “I just felt so sorry, and my heart went out to those people.” Mentzer, now 90, was referring to the historic “Black Friday” Flood of July 1951, when much…

Another 2.84 inches of rain fell Monday, for a total of 10.16 inches since Friday. Rivers and creeks were swollen, with water running over many streets and roads throughout the county.

The Neosho River in Iola is on the rise from the rains from the previous week, and will continue to rise with this week’s rain predictions. Iola received 7.32 inches of rain over the weekend.

“It was pretty bad … very, very fast water,” said Burlington police chief Doug Jones, who was on-scene Saturday evening following a boating accident on the Neosho River that claimed the lives of three people…

BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — A mother and two young children died Saturday in a boating accident that also hospitalized the father, Kansas state game wardens said. The accident happened on the Neosho River in the…