To the editor, It has been no secret that the Kansas Department of Transportation has taken the brunt of state budget woes over the last six years. To the tune of $2.7 billion, money has…

GAS — Residents here will pay an additional $1 a month for once-a-week trash pickup, council members decided Tuesday evening.  The rate had been $7.50 a month since January 2012. Bids will be opened on…

Angie Murphy wants to consolidate rolling stock at Allen County’s emergency management center to save on cost for insurance and maintenance. Over the past several years the center, home of 911 services, has inherited four…

Today’s Lenten breakfast drew scores of Iolans to First Christian Church. Among the volunteers helping dish out the morning meal, above, were, from left, Judy McGraw, Edna Donovan, Janie Henderson, Karen Trester and Dorothy McGhee.…

HUMBOLDT — Battle at the Bullring III concluded late Sunday afternoon after a one-day weather delay with Springdale, Ark., driver J.C. Morton powered to the front for his biggest victory to date behind the wheel…

The 2016-17 season was very successful for several of the area’s high school girls basketball teams and culminated with the Humboldt Cubs winning their sub-state tournament and advancing to the State Tournament. Before we completely…

There were few players in the state of Kansas that had more responsibility on their shoulders than Iola senior point guard Sydney Wade.  Statistics don’t do justice to how important Wade was. Not only did…

Education is a means for youngsters to acquire knowledge and skills necessary so they may become contributive members of society. For some, that means preparing for the work-a-day world during elementary and secondary school years.…

Having failed to convince the Iola City Council to reschedule its bimonthly meetings so as to avoid conflict with the district’s school board meetings, Iolan Larry Walden took his appeal to the USD 257 board…

HUMBOLDT – Humboldt council members were bitten by nostalgia Monday evening, and kicked in $1,000 to help make the town’s 160th birthday celebration more of a party. “The more (money) we have, the more we…