Tag: travel

Mother Nature may throw a monkey wrench into travel plans for Thanksgiving. A number of active storm systems are forecast from coast to coast on and before Thanksgiving Day. Forecasts call for an 80 percent…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — British tour operator Thomas Cook fell victim to multiple setbacks including shifting travel habits, the rise of online booking sites, the sinking pound and even unusually hot weather that encouraged fewer…

One Monday in February, 65-year-old Karen Endicott-Coyan gripped the wheel of her black 2014 Ford Taurus with both hands as she made the hour-long drive from her farm near Fort Scott to Chanute. With a…

The drive between Iola and Chanute just got a bit shorter and a bit smoother, as U.S. 169 is now open after more than a year of construction.  The highway between Delaware Road north to…

Daily bus service from Iola to Wichita going west, and from Iola to Joplin going east and south, with stops in between is available from Beeline Express, a commercial bus service. In a news release…

A storm system known as a “bomb cyclone” slowly churned through the U.S. interior today for the second time in a month, unleashing a blizzard in parts of the Midwest while creating hazardous fire conditions…

Iola city crews were out en masse before dawn today in an attempt to plow away more than a quarter-inch of ice that shuttered schools across southeast Kansas and made travel miserable for everyone. The…

Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend and I are both 19, and we’ll be having our five-year anniversary this summer. We’ve dated long-distance the entire time. To celebrate this milestone, we are going on an overnight trip.…