At least $60,000 still remains to help local businesses cover costs related to COVID-19, of the initial $132,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG-CV) funds awarded to Allen County from the Kansas Department of Commerce.…

LAHARPE — LaHarpe property owners should expect to pay largely the same in property taxes to support the city’s budget in 2021. City Council members gathered for a special meeting Tuesday to draft the city’s…

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab must release the names of people who cast provisional ballots in the 2018 general election, including whether their votes were counted, a Kansas judge…

Tuesday’s Results Little League Nekson Quarries 1 Masonic Lodge 10 Hits for Nelson: K. Pratt, 1 1b; N. Schowengerdt, 1 2b; D. Weir, 1 1b; E. LaCrone, 1 1b.  Hits for Masonic: B. Davis, 2…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Lawrence school district has decided to start its school year after Labor Day with at least six weeks of online learning because of the threat of the coronavirus pandemic. School…

Football, volleyball, boys soccer and all other fall sports will play as originally scheduled this fall. The Kansas State High School Activities Association’s executive board voted 5-4 against a postponement proposal Tuesday, ruling athletics will…

A measly four starts into Patrick Mahomes’ NFL career in 2018, Mahomes Mania already was at a fever pitch in Kansas City. So much so that we playfully pictured a version of the future in…

DETROIT (AP) — Jonathan Schoop and Christin Stewart each hit a two-run homer in the third inning to lift Detroit over Kansas City, 4-3. Whit Merrifield hit a three-run shot in the top of the…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials today rejected accusations that Moscow is spreading disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., slamming them as “conspiracy theories” and a “persistent phobia.”  U.S. officials told The Associated Press…

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ child welfare agency balked at releasing records about a 3-year-old girl whose battered body was found this month, despite a 2018 law that aimed to make such documents more…