The Mustang tennis team wrapped up the first week of its season on Thursday with their home meet against Independence, Columbus and Parsons.  After an up-down performance in the season opener in Independence on Tuesday,…

Sydney Wade had a remarkable senior season for the Iola Fillies to cap on her career. Wade is the Iola Register’s 2016-17 Girls Basketball Player of the Year. The point guard’s role under the direction…

Marmaton Valley senior point guard Kyla Drake capped off her final season in a Wildcat basketball uniform by winning the Southeast Kansas Fellowship of Christian Athletes Athlete of the Month award for March.  In addition…

Financial advisers tell clients to plan ahead, avoid maxing out credit card debt and make adjustments if projections don’t pan out. That’s also good advice for Kansas legislators, particularly those who have accepted, finally, that…

Dennis “Ray” Reynolds, 70, died Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at Medicalodge, Fort Scott.  A memorial service for Reynolds, who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War, will be at 4 p.m. April 2 at…

A proposed change to one of the most prominent scholarships available to Allen County high-schoolers could open the door to more students. A petition filed in District Court on behalf of the William Preston and…

Iola’s high school and middle school students  took a stand against tobacco use Wednesday as part of Kick Butts Day. Above, event organizer Colin Long, from left, a seventh-grader at IMS, visits with Iola High…

The Iola Mustangs, Humboldt Cubs and Yates Center Wildcats all found themselves ranked at various points in the season in the boys basketball Kansas Basketball Coaches’ Association Poll with Humboldt even climbing as high as…

The Iola High School wrestling program hasn’t had a problem with quality over the past few years as they have routinely sent wrestlers to the state tournament, but they have had a quantity problem with…

Steve Fitzgerald, a Kansas senator from Leavenworth, should have his mouth washed out with soap. On Monday he parroted the Trump and ultra-conservative line about Planned Parenthood, only in crude terms. “Planned Parenthood (is) worse…