Month: June 2024

Infrastructure work continues at the Allen County airport, including installation of water and sewer lines as part of a project that could eventually encourage development of an industrial park. Allen County Commissioners helped move the…

The optics of Kansas legislators debating whether to support an effort to lure the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals across the border during Tuesday’s special session are somewhat jarring. Initially, the session was to solely…

One of the most grueling sporting events in the country is passing through Iola this week. The first cyclists taking part in the Race Across America — a transcontinental jaunt from California to Maryland —…

Juneteenth is no more a holiday just for Black people than the Fourth of July is a holiday just for white people. It recognizes and celebrates a profound milestone in American history — the declaration…

My home state’s citizens last month elected their next governor. No, I misspeak. Five percent of them elected him. Seven percent preferred a different candidate, and 88 percent never had a say in the decision.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS plans to end a major tax loophole for wealthy taxpayers that could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade, the U.S. Treasury Department says. The guidance…

DALLAS (AP) — NASA’s Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is sending science data again. Voyager 1’s four instruments are back in business after a computer problem in November, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory…

The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday opinion piece in the The New York Times,…

The regular monthly meeting of the Prairie Rose 4-H Club was called to order by President Sophia Heim on June 9.  The cloverbuds led the club in the Pledge of Allegiance and the 4-H pledge.…

A robot clips weeds Monday morning in an 80-acre soybean field owned by Humboldt farmer Shawn Geffert. The beans were planted April 13.