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Allen Countians are prohibited from any kind of outdoor burning through  1 p.m. Wednesday. The48-hour burn ban was announced early Monday afternoon, due to excessive hot, dry and windy conditions. The ban includes any kind…

Iolans can once again get their fix of protein shakes, energy teas and protein iced coffee. Nutrition on the Square, an offshoot of The Daily Grind in Chanute, opened its doors at 7 E. Madison…

COLONY — All signs point to fun for Saturday’s annual Colony Day celebration. Festival-goers will get to relish the “Joy in the Journey” — this year’s theme — with a packed schedule, starting bright and…

Throngs of visitors paid a visit to TLC Garden Center in LaHarpe Saturday as part of the store’s fall festival. Several area businesses set up vendor tents, while TLC’s Tarra Lampe led a pair of…

Starting today, the price of the Register will increase to $1.50 per copy. Rates for print subscribers will increase by 10%, and digital subscriptions will increase 5%. Phew — got that out of the way!…

YATES CENTER — Lesli Banner can only laugh some days. When she tells folks she and Johnny Atkin IV own Lanes at Light Hardware — the community’s bowling alley — she invariably gets one of…

The heat of a Wisconsin summer was no match for 10-year-old Jaxen Birk and his young Hereford, Tootsie. The Gridley fifth-grader stepped into the show ring at the VitaFerm Junior National Hereford Expo in July…

Iola already has many of the ingredients of a strong community. What it needs now, according to the ideas emerging from a community conversation Tuesday evening, is a clearer plan for bringing those pieces together…

Though prolonged hot and dry weather have had a visible effect on the area’s two main cash crops, corn and soybeans, local farmers are saying the corn harvest is going well to exceptionally well, said…

Allen Community College’s new commercial driver’s license (CDL) program is preparing to enroll its first class in October. Dante Powell, director of the CDL program, updated Allen County Commissioners about its development and his plans…