The Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University has released the report from their 2025 Kansas Speaks public opinion survey.  This survey, conducted each fall since 2009, covers questions from satisfaction with…

BOSTON (AP) — Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown. The…

TOPEKA — State and local leaders gathered Thursday at the new Robert B. Docking State Office Building to celebrate completion of the three-year, $120 million project. It took more than a decade for the state…

Joseph Harvey Hess, 89, of Iola, died Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, at Moran Manor, Moran. Joe was born Dec. 28, 1935, in Archie, Mo., to Joseph Henry Hess and Dorothy Mae (George) Hess. Joe and…

Iola Elementary School students dressed as monsters, princesses, superheroes and everything in between during their annual Halloween parade Friday afternoon. 

Coffey County is throwing its hat into the ring to bring in a second nuclear power plant. County commissioners approved this month a resolution declaring their interest in becoming home to a cutting-edge Natrium nuclear…

As food pantry shelves in Southeast Kansas should be filling for the holidays, they are instead beginning to go bare, the demand is so great. That’s because of the fear that the federal Supplemental Nutrition…

Early one morning last spring, my daughter, then 4½, asked me to tell her again how we’d once been connected by her belly button.  She had begun to imagine a tiny version of herself drinking…

In the early 2000s, the advice for parents was clear: Don’t feed babies and toddlers foods containing peanuts. It might increase the child’s risk of developing a severe allergy to the ground nut. By the…

Peyton Schmidt, recently voted the September Allen County Area Athlete of the Month, remains confident as the Crest Lady Lancers prepare to run for a state title at this weekend’s KSHSAA State Cross Country Championship…