Kansas Democrats wiped the slate clean and elected new party leadership this weekend at their annual retreat in Topeka.The time for licking wounds is past. Last year’s disastrous election cycle proved if Democrats don’t make…

Some problems are good ones.Michael Covey and Kurt Jackson have alleviated some of those “good problems” by expanding their business, J&C Electrical Solutions LLC, to Iola last fall. “We got too big to operate out…

With 96 percent of the state’s judicial branch budget targeted for salaries, any lapse in funding by the Legislature would be troubling, District Judge Dan Creitz told Iola Rotarians Thursday.Fiscal year 2016 starts July 1…

COLONY — A pyramid of scrapbook albums cover the Luedke’s dining room table. Allene Luedke sits in her quaint Colony home and thumbs through the album pages. She traces her index finger across the yellowing…

It’s a hard heart that wouldn’t have been moved by the Humboldt High School girls’ gutsy performance Thursday night in what turned out to be their final game of the season.The Cubs lost to the…

Iola High’s Mustangs basketball season came to an end Thursday night in the first round of Class 4A-II Sub-State. Iola lost to Girard 65-24.The game started off on a good note for the Mustangs. Senior…

Iola High’s Fillies lived to play another day of basketball. With its 36-33 win over Anderson County on Friday in the Class 4A-II Sub-State Bracket, Iola is one game away from making it to the…

Judy C. Kinman White was born Nov. 19, 1942, in Iola, to Louis G. and Kizzie A. Kinman. She attended grade school in Gas and Estes Park, Colo. She attended high school in Iola and…

Ardena Marie Kilet, 91, Garnett, a 1940 Kincaid High School graduate, died Thursday, March 5, 2015, at Guest Home Estates, Garnett.Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel,…

The Department of Justice finding that Ferguson, Mo., police officers violated the civil rights of black residents as a matter of course came as no surprise.Racism is alive and kicking throughout the nation, albeit not…