CHANUTE — Field events fueled Iola High’s Mustang junior varsity to a team title. Iola High’s Fillies found the speed on track to claim the runner-up trophy in their division of Monday’s Chanute High Junior…

Iola High’s defense booted the softball around too many times to win Monday’s single game against visiting Prairie View High’s Buffalos. The Fillies lost 11-2 in varsity play at Riverside Park. They committed 11 errors…

Dustin Aherin, a sophomore at Allen Community College, has been selected as Kansas’ Coca-Cola New Century Scholar. Only one student from each state receives the designation, as well as Canada and seven other countries around…

HUMBOLDT — Sale of at least 32 million gallons of raw water a year for oil field use was put off by Humboldt Council members Monday night until they and City Attorney Fred Works have…

McKinley Elementary Principal Lori Maxwell won’t be leaving her post. Earlier this year, Maxwell accepted the curriculum director position for USD 257. However, Iola school board members Monday night honored a request by Maxwell to…

The Iola school board voted to form a special committee to further investigate a possible fine arts and literacy preschool program for USD 257. The board delayed moving forward with the preschool project, which would…

HUMBOLDT — The downtown action team here announced it is nearing the halfway mark toward its goal of raising $50,000 to restore and refurbish the town square. Breaking the news at a press conference at…

Admission fees to the Iola Municipal Pool will stay the same in 2012. City Council members rejected a proposal from the city’s recreation advisory committee to help balance the pool’s budget by raising pool rates…

Iolans got their first look Monday at a proposed charter ordinance that would drastically reshape the existing city council. Council members announced the proposal, which would set up staggered elections for council members, greatly reduce…

For the first time in perhaps a century, Iolans can shoot off fireworks in city limits legally for Independence Day. City Council members voted 4-3 Monday in favor of allowing the sale and shooting of…