In the aftermath of a campaign season that pretty much focused on everything wrong with Kansas and the nation, Friday night’s Thrive Allen County banquet was a much-needed celebration of things going right. The contrast…

YANTAI, China — They shop in malls and high-end supermarkets, buy condos by the seaside, attend wine tastings, vacation abroad, and push their kids to apply to Harvard. But they aren’t American suburbanites; they are…

The 2018 election was “Year of the Woman, Part Deux.” Women, particularly Democrats, made gains nationwide. Kansas factored into that, electing Laura Kelly as governor, Vicki Schmidt as insurance commissioner, and Sharice Davids to Congress.…

SEDALIA — Allen Community College men’s basketball made some noise over the weekend by downing the No. 11 Moberly Area Greyhounds in a 106-103 thriller in the final game of the State Fair Classic in…

The Marmaton Valley Junior High girls got two wins at home over Pleasanton last Thursday. The Wildcat A-Team won in a close 18-16 battle and the B-Team romped their way to a 28-2 victory. The…

LAWRENCE, Kan. — No matter who else is hired to a college football head coaching job over the next several weeks, none will come with more fascination than the one introduced by Kansas on Sunday.…

LOS ANGELES — Bill it as a possible Super Bowl preview, a matchup between the NFL’s two highest-scoring teams. Tonight’s game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Kansas City Chiefs, originally scheduled for Mexico…

CHICAGO (AP) — The recent turbulence in the U.S. stock markets is spooking some older workers and retirees, a group that was hit particularly hard during the most recent financial crisis. There’s no indication, though,…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Federal Reserve says farm income continued to decline across the Plains and western states this fall because crop prices remain weak. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, says…

Dear Dr.  Roach: How effective is the flu vaccine for seniors 65 and over? — L.F.G. Answer: Not as much as we’d like it to be, but still a lot better than none. The flu…