Abnormally dry conditions across the state and region have sparked fears of a repeat of last year’s devastating wildfires that destroyed 651,000 acres in central and western Kansas. Locally, though, Allen County’s top emergency management…

U.S. 169 will be closed between Iola and Humboldt starting this spring to accommodate a full rebuild of the highway.The 7.12-mile rebuild is expected to take upward of 18 months, and is slated to begin…

GIRLSDespite a dominant first quarter and a nip-and-tuck second, the Crest Lancers girls were not able to marshal the four quarters worth of steam needed to knock off the bigger, taller, more wiley Wildcats from…

Both Humboldt teams ended Tuesday 0-2 in Tri-Valley League play after losing to Eureka. The Lady Cubs lost 44-43 in a game that went down to the wire. Humboldt trailed 10-9 after the first quarter.…

The Fillies learned the hard way what happens when you don’t play the full 36 minutes of a game Tuesday night in their 44-36 loss to Santa Fe Trail.Iola was ahead for the majority of…

It’s becoming harder and harder to explain away the Iola boys losses. On Tuesday night, the Mustangs hosted a Santa Fe Trail team they had beaten by 14 a month and a half earlier and…

Allen County hosted Garden City on Saturday and both the men and women fell to the Broncbusters. The Allen County women fell 64-43.The Lady Devils only lost by eight when they met up in western…

The Iola Middle School boys basketball team hosted Humboldt and Pittsburg on Saturday morning. Iola went 1-1 and Humboldt went 0-2 with both teams falling to Pittsburg and Iola beating Humboldt 28-16. The Ponies opened…

The Humboldt Middle School Cubs continued league play on Monday by hosting Neodesha and the Cubs lost all but one game. The eighth-grade boys lost 35-24. “Neodesha is a very tall team with guards that…

Dear editor,Read where there will be committee meetings for those who will support a new school and then there will be a meeting that the “public” may attend at 6 p.m. You stated that “all…