Month: April 2020

Don’t ask high school students to read books written by long-dead white men. That was just one of the takeaways Iola High School English teachers learned at a recent education conference. Students must feel engaged…

With the Democratic presidential nomination within his grasp, former Vice President Joe Biden must make a decision that presidential candidates always insist that they take seriously but often don’t: the selection of a running mate.…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Longtime Wichita radio host and Wichita State University basketball announcer Don Hall died early Wednesday morning in a crash at a busy Wichita intersection, and police arrested another driver involved in…

WICHITA — The coronavirus shutdown killed oil prices.  That could be a killer for local governments in large swaths of Kansas, places long addicted to the tax money that’s been lost as companies stop pumping…

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 3.8 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as the U.S. economy slid further into a crisis that is becoming the most devastating since the 1930s. Roughly 30.3…

Early May is the ideal time to put fertilizer on native hay meadows. Several years ago Woodson County Extension had a demonstration plot on a native hay meadow south of Yates Center. With over 15…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump likes to talk about the most, the best, the thing that nobody has ever seen. Now he is trying to make a virtue of a lower number, arguing that…

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that Kansas can’t require voters to show proof of citizenship when they register, dealing a blow to efforts by Republicans in several states…

Dear Carolyn: One of my kids has an acquaintance who needs a place to go. She’s a gay kid whose parents are moving this summer, and they’ve told her she won’t be going with them.…

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has the third-highest coronavirus death toll in the world after the British government published new figures Wednesday that include deaths outside of hospitals. After factoring in deaths in all settings…