Vaxxed. Or. Masked. At Tuesday’s meeting, Allen County commissioners continued to align its COVID-19 policy with recommendations from health professionals, including the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE).…

Iola City Councilman Steve French has become the first nominee to become Iola’s next mayor. French,  a retired investigator with the Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services, has served two separate terms on the Iola…

TOPEKA — Kansas, a state that relies heavily on the cattle industry to power its economy, faces a shortage of the veterinarians that tend to the livestock. So it’s launched a task force to find…

NEW DELHI (AP) — India today reported more coronavirus deaths in a single day than any other country at any time during the pandemic, while infections continued to spread through vast rural areas with weak…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Whit Merrifield slid under the tag to give the Royals the lead with two outs in the eighth inning, Brewers manager Craig Counsell immediately challenged the bang-bang call and his…

WASHINGTON — The House voted Tuesday to approve a bill aimed at addressing hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, responding to a massive uptick in attacks against Asian Americans since the pandemic began.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union today took a step toward relaxing tourism travel for visitors from outside the bloc, with EU ambassadors agreeing on measures to allow fully vaccinated visitors in. They also agreed…

“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” — George Orwell, 1984 U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde got the sort of treatment normally directed toward Georgia’s own Marjorie…

For the nearly five decades since the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion, that right has been under attack by state legislators. But the high court has…

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s latest stunt — serving the Chinese Communist Party and other defendants in a lawsuit blaming China for the COVID-19 pandemic — is a sideshow, but it’s a dangerous one. As…