TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Agriculture briefed a legislative committee Monday on legal challenges of compelling action to repair 29 dams in unsatisfactory condition and considered a hazard to homes, businesses or infrastructure. Earl…

HUMBOLDT — An up and down night for the Cubs gave way to a 1-2 record on Monday night as Humboldt Middle School’s boys basketball squad played Neodesha. Humboldt’s A team won 36-27, the B…

Where are the hearings? It’s been eight weeks since Liz Cheney, the top Republican on the House select committee investigating the attack of on the U.S. Capitol of Jan. 6, 2021, promised “multiple weeks of…

Kansas’ Bill Self is looking for a strong response after a lopsided home loss, while Texas’ Chris Beard is preparing to face the program he led to within a win of a national championship just…

BEIJING (AP) — The first so-called modern Olympics took place in 1896 in Athens. But the inaugural Winter Olympics were not held until 1924 in Chamonix, France. Calvin Coolidge was the American president at the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball labor negotiations are set to resume Tuesday, just over two weeks before the scheduled start of a spring training that’s threatened by a lockout. The sport’s ninth work stoppage began…

The clock hit 13 seconds late in the first half Sunday, and a sold-out crowd inside Arrowhead Stadium began to chant the number in unison. A venue that spent more than two decades as the…

Debbie Taiclet, left, and Chrissy Womelsdorf, center, of Iola Insurance Associates, hosted an Iola Area Chamber of Commerce coffee this morning, and took advantage of the occasion to also celebrate their 20 years in business.…

Iola Middle School’s boys basketball teams took on Prairie View Monday night, just two days after a tough performance in their home tournament. Iola went 3-1. The B teams played half games due to a…

American families are feeling the financial squeeze of soaring inflation and a persistent pandemic as fractious Democrats return to Washington this week no closer to a deal on a tax and spending bill party leaders…