MINNEAPOLIS — Laura DuSchane had just walked her 3-year-old son, Rory, across the street to Annunciation Catholic School for his third day of preschool on what should have been an ordinary Wednesday morning. Back in…

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is making calls to legislators and has his team planning for a potential special session on gun legislation, a senior administration official says. “It’s time to take serious action…

Wednesday’s school shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis is every parent’s worst nightmare. It’s our greatest fear, the thing that keeps us up at night, what we push out of our heads as we…

President Joe Biden said in the last presidential election that our country was at a reflection point. I believe we are way past that point, more like a speeding train heading for a disaster. During…

It’s a hard truth that some kinds of manufacturing are never going to come back in the United States, and no amount of protective tariffs will change that. This truth is ignored at great peril…

CHANUTE — The Iola High School Mustangs opened the season by taking third at the Chanute Girls Tennis Invitational Thursday evening. Although not taking the top spot in either singles or doubles action, each of…

While the Humboldt Jamboree will be a mostly Allen County affair, area 8-man teams used their jamborees to get prepared as far away from each other as possible. Crest High School, Marmaton Valley and Yates…

Fred VanWey isn’t afraid of bringing things back from the dead. As a child, one of his chores, before he could go outside and play, was to do routine repairs around the house. It wasn’t…

With mixed emotions, and more than a hint of exhaustion, Steve Strickler watched as a pair of 18-wheelers departed Thursday evening. Their load — 65 milking cows, the last of the Strickler Holstein Dairy operation…

HUMBOLDT — “It takes a lot to run a city,” is how Cole Herder, Humboldt city administrator, began Wednesday’s conversation about the upcoming city budget hearing.   Not that he expects any pushback.   But…