Carroll and Faith Weber have been running the Best Western Motel in Iola for years but last month they took on their own restaurant for the first time. The Best Western Restaurant and the Inn…

Jobs alone don’t help a community grow. You need a diverse supply of affordable housing, too. An extensive housing report released this week shows a strong job market in Southeast Kansas, but growth is hampered…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won’t face criminal charges stemming from allegations from two women — including a state trooper — that he planted unwanted kisses on their cheeks, a…

GROVE, England (AP) — Williams driver Nicholas Latifi revealed Tuesday that he received death threats after his late crash at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix sparked a controversial ending to the Formula One title race.…

Now that Kansas’s economy is on solid footing, state lawmakers’ first action come January should be to eliminate the state sales tax on food.  Kansas is only one of a dozen states to tax food.…

A pair of dangerously close space encounters are adding to tensions between the U.S. and China, while underscoring the potential peril to astronauts as satellite constellations and debris proliferate in orbit. Two SpaceX satellites had…

ATLANTA (AP) — More than 40 people in the U.S. have been found to be infected with the omicron variant so far, and more than three-quarters of them had been vaccinated, the chief of the…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Georgia’s defense was nearly invincible for three months, allowing less than a touchdown per game.  Then came the Southeastern Conference championship game against Alabama, where the Crimson Tide seemingly cracked…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Harry Reid, the former U.S. Senate majority leader and Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress, has died. He was 82. Reid died Tuesday, “peacefully” and surrounded by friends at home in suburban…

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Cincinnati has heard for more than three weeks about becoming the first non-Power Five team to break into the College Football Playoff, and then what a big underdog the Bearcats are…