As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds across the globe, one lesson is emerging: markets are extremely fragile, and critically needed help will come not from business but from governments. Neoliberal pundits and conservative economists have insisted…

Crest High School graduate Annika Hobbs is firing up her jets in preparing to join the U.S. Air Force. She begins basic training on July 21 at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. As…

Lindsey Temaat, a 2019 Allen Community College graduate, has been named Marketing Leader of the Year by Enactus USA, a social entrepreneurship organization. A Leonardville native, Temaat moved to Iola in the fall of 2017…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kansas pushed Wednesday to greatly limit Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s power to keep businesses closed during the coronavirus pandemic and give the GOP-controlled Legislature’s leaders the final say…

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the viral outbreak that triggered widespread business shutdowns two months ago and sent…

35 Years Ago May 1985 Jenise Bain was named valedictorian and Paula Lucas salutatorian of the 1985 Iola High School graduating class. ***** Sally Barnaby was named valedictorian of the Humboldt High School graduating class…

Onella Valentine, age 94, died Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at her home in Neosho Falls.  She was born Jan. 26, 1926 to John and Lela (Banks) Gumfory in Iola.  She married Virgle V. Valentine on…

Car hits pickup Dennis Ringwald, 72, was stopped for a traffic light May 11 at the intersection of U.S. 54 and South Jefferson Avenue, when his pickup was struck from behind by a car driven…

The Iola Police Department will host its annual Hooked On Fishing, Not On Drugs fishing derby June 20 at Abbott’s Pond along North Cottonwood Street. Pre-registration is available through 5 p.m. June 18 at the…

Did you find a rock at the park and don’t know what kind it is? What about fossils?  If you would like to learn more about rocks, minerals and fossils, then dive into the geology…