Iolans can feast on coffee and doughnuts Saturday morning while listening to Sen. Jeff King and Rep. Bill Otto for “Coffee ’n Conversation.”  The event runs from 7:30 to 9 in the Community National Bank…

With the school year coming to a close parents aren’t typically thinking about fall enrollment, said DeeDee Martin. Children entering preschool or kindergarten in the fall must have a physical and meet immunization requirements. It…

Shelia Lampe sees Saturday’s Chamber EXPO as a step in the right direction. Participation was up by area vendors, with 44 reserved booths for the two-day event. Lampe estimates 800-1,000 people came to see  what…

HUMBOLDT — Contentiousness over a proposed comprehensive plan for Humboldt waned Wednesday evening during a Planning Commission session. First, City Administrator Larry Tucker said, on advice from City Attorney Fred Works, the plan needed to…

A number of local court cases may have to be rescheduled because of temporary furloughs ordered within the district court system. Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss said Wednesday judicial district offices — including…

Lynn Cameron remembers the day a chill raced down her spine. Someone burst into the Allen County attorney’s office and exclaimed, “Someone’s going to die!”  He didn’t mean her, Cameron said the man continued, and…

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran toured Iola’s Age to Age preschool at the Windsor Place nursing home Wednesday. The USD 257 preschool program that promotes interaction between the young and the elderly is a model for…

Opal Irene Duggan of Gas died Monday, April 2, 2012, at Windsor Place. She was born May 23, 1926, in Skidmore, Mo., to Dick Earl Gray and Opal Marie Myers who preceded her in death.…

Unemployment in the 12 nations which use the euro rose to 10.8 percent in February. Of the 17 countries in the eurozone, seven had unemployment rates above 10 percent, according to a Monday re- port…

Ideological purity comes with a high price in Kansas. Monday, the office of Attorney General Derek Schmidt revealed it had spent $597,000 through March on outside lawyers hired to defend the anti- abortion laws. It…