For those wondering if football would be played at Riverside Park this fall — the answer is yes.  The Kansas State High School Activities Association (KSHSAA) executive board voted Tuesday, 5-4, to leave the fall…

Former Iola High standout Madisyn Holloway will play basketball at Allen Community College for the next two seasons. This past year, Holloway, who graduated from IHS in 2019, completed her one year of cosmetology school…

With the impending return of more athletes to the campus of Allen Community College, its  athletic department is devising a plan for how they will deal with the large influx  of students. First step, is…

NASA’s newest Mars rover is called Perseverance, and it has already lived up to the name. Weighing in at just over a ton and loaded with the most sophisticated instruments ever sent to the red…

Scott Richard Scheibmeir, age 52, passed away Friday, July 24, 2020, at his residence in Valley Center. Scott was born on Jan. 2, 1968, in Iola, to Donald Scheibmeir and Theresa (Sicka) Scheibmeir.  Scott graduated…

Last week, Sen. John Cornyn proposed a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. The proposal failed, but we expect it to succeed when Cornyn tries again. And we hope he will. Juneteenth remembers June…

Kris Kobach made his name by punching down. He rose to prominence by targeting undocumented immigrants, one of the least powerful groups of people in this country. Over the summer, increasingly abandoned by his party…

Decades before the nation’s pastime was invented, Robert Burns captured the essence of the sport from far way in Scotland with his observation about how the best laid plans of mice and men often go…

WEST ADDISON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont skydiver who lost his prosthetic leg during a jump has it back, thanks to a farmer who kept an eye out for it and spotted it in a…

Allen Countians may soon be asked to vote on loosening the county’s alcohol laws. Paul Cloutier of A Bolder Humboldt asked county commissioners Tuesday to consider adding a resolution to the general election ballot, that…