The Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) has announced a temporary halt to its June food commodity shipments due to a lack of federal funds, resulting in the cancellation of distribution at Wesley United…

President Trump ordered hundreds of Marines to Los Angeles on Tuesday to help quell a fifth day of street protests against his crackdown on undocumented immigrants. The Marine battalion of 700 active duty military troops…

DALLAS — The teen who opened fire inside Wilmer-Hutchins High School last year was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday morning for injuring a classmate. Eighteen-year-old Ja’Kerian Rhodes-Ewing pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with…

TOPEKA — Justin Gilpin visited a remote, windswept camp in northern Kenya serving hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflicts in Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan. “To be able to see that and witness…

HUMBOLDT — The prospects of higher education just got a lot more affordable for future Humboldt-USD 258 graduates. The Humboldt Promise, announced at Monday’s USD 258 Board of Education meeting, is a scholarship that provides…

Iola officials will continue to look at options now that the city will almost certainly be denied federal funding for a number of flood-control measures for Riverside Park. City Administrator Matt Rehder said the writing’s…

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the Bowlus Fine Arts Center will assume control of the Flewharty House from the Iola Public Library.  The decision has yet to be approved…

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with…

HUMBOLDT — It’s a tough time for kids these days. Darcie Croisant remembers all too well the pressures of growing up, particularly as a middle-schooler. “My parents went through a divorce when I was young,”…

GARNETT — Wyatt Whitham, 16, Kincaid, was killed when the UTV he was driving crashed on a county road west of Garnett Saturday night. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported that Whitham, who who was driving…