What was once an aging storefront on Madison Avenue has been completely transformed into a bright, welcoming space ready to serve the Iola community once again.  MJ’s Boutique & Consignments, 113 W. Madison Ave.,  is…

Iola’s Community Involvement Task Force is seeking the public input on a pair of billboards. The billboards are on opposite sides of Iola on U.S. 169 and measure 12 feet tall by 22 feet wide.…

A team of volunteers gathered Saturday for LaHarpe’s annual Cleanup Day. The event, hosted by LaHarpe PRIDE, featured a number of Kansas State University and Allen Community College students, Thrive Allen County and other volunteers,…

NEW YORK (AP) — The moon will look slightly bigger and brighter Wednesday night during the closest supermoon of the year. The moon’s orbit around the Earth isn’t a perfect circle, so it gets nearer…

For more than 30 years, the federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) has helped individuals and families in Anderson, Franklin, and Osage counties make healthier food and lifestyle choices.  The program, however, came…

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool. Dozens of centers are…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP after two judges issued rulings requiring it to keep the nation’s largest food aid program running. The U.S. Department of Agriculture,…