HUMBOLDT — More than 15,000 meals were distributed over the summer via Humboldt USD 258’s summer meals program, which concludes Thursday. The team served an average of 170 children and 30 adults a day, Terry…

Sunflower Summer, a promotion allowing youngsters more access to sites of interest across the state, has been extended to Aug. 8. The program originally was slated to end on Sunday, but was extended the additional…

TOPEKA — A Kansas program aimed at preventing unemployment fraud has been caught in the crosshairs of the Trump administration’s crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The U.S. Department of Labor in May canceled…

WASHINGTON — Commercial real estate giant CBRE is always on alert for shifts in federal government policy that might impact its vast property management and investment business. But the Los Angeles-based Fortune 500 company never…

Bethany Miller and Briley Prather, Iola High School juniors, will attend the Sunflower Girls State program this summer. Iola’s American Legion Auxiliary Chapter 15 is sponsoring the students with the help of Nelson Quarries and…

Learn about how to keep you and your family during extreme weather at Monday’s “Storm Fury on the Plains,” at 6:30 p.m. in the Creitz Recital Hall in the Bowlus Center. The program is free…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Commerce announced Thursday significant changes to its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) – Community Facilities program to allow a rolling application process, lower local match requirements and an expanded…

Iola City Council members expressed a willingness Monday to see the city set up a land bank program. A land bank is essentially a collection of community-owned abandoned, vacant or otherwise foreclosed properties that could…

Kansas communities in the last two years have requested more than $600 million for water needs, stunning state officials as they work to allocate funds to a fraction of the projects. Dawn Buehler, chair of…

EUREKA — Greenwood County, in partnership with the Southwind Extension District, has announced an educational program focused on sheep and goat management, along with market and marketing strategies, to be held on Dec. 12, at…