The Annual Colony Crest Alumni Banquet will be Saturday, Sept. 30. Registration begins at 4 p.m. at the old Kincaid School. Dinner will begin at 5, followed by the meeting at 5:30. Advanced tickets are…

CEDAR KEY, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday in Florida as a Category 3 storm and unleashed devastation along a wide stretch of the Gulf Coast, submerging homes and vehicles, turning streets into…

Rookies Sports Bar & Grill is pulling itself out of the ashes after a fire on Aug. 11. Owners Carri and Mike Sailor had already been planning to open a second facility at 2402 N.…

Local advocates will gather Friday at the Recovery House at 16 N. Buckeye to recognize September as National Recovery Month from substance abuse disorders. Since 1989, Recovery Month has been held every September to promote…

Allen County voters will decide in November whether to approve bonds up to $9.95 million for a courthouse remodel. The project is led by a committee including 31st Judicial District Chief Judge Daniel Creitz, who…

Kathryn Mae Barnes, age 83, of Savonburg, passed away Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, at her home. Kathryn was born Sept. 8, 1939, in Savonburg to Hans Peterson and Faye (Hufferd) Peterson. Kathryn and William Perry…

Test scores for nearly all grade levels in the Iola school district lag behind the state, but the district’s curriculum director says those numbers don’t tell the full story. If you dig into individual student…

TOPEKA — The U.S. Justice Department has ordered a rural northeast Kansas community college to end discriminatory practices and treat Black students fairly. The investigation into Highland Community College, about 80 miles north of Kansas…

Local artist Stephen Gilpin will speak Friday morning about his progress on designing a mural for the Lehigh Portland Trail complex. Gilpin was chosen from nine finalists who had submitted designs for murals to be…

Kansas authorities must destroy all electronic copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when police raided its office this month, a judge ordered Tuesday, nearly two weeks after computers and cellphones seized in the…