Miss Chelsea’s Dance Academy will present its 10th anniversary showcase Friday and Saturday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, “This Is The Greatest Show.” Tickets for the 6:30 p.m. shows sell for $12 apiece and…
Walt Whitman, one of America’s greatest poets, spent plenty of time thinking about grass. He is best known for his poetry collection “Leaves of Grass.” In it, he contemplates the “hopeful green stuff,” comparing it…
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were deemed illegal and blocked by the U.S. trade court, dealing a major blow to a pillar of the Republican’s economic agenda. The ruling can now be…
U.S. health officials are terminating a $590 million contract with Moderna Inc. to develop vaccines for bird flu, a major setback for the company that’s also facing additional government scrutiny over immunizations. Moderna said in…
TOPEKA — The city of Leavenworth has not given up its fight to force CoreCivic to follow development processes before reopening its prison facility as an ICE detention center. The city refiled in Leavenworth District…
Upcoming changes to graduation requirements, Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathways, and the district’s Individual Plan of Study (IPS) curriculum were under the microscope at Tuesday’s meeting of the Iola USD 257 Board of Education. …
Iola is one step closer to getting a land bank in place. City Administrator Matt Rehder told City Council members Monday he plans on bringing a formal proposal to their June 9 meeting. A land…
The Iola City Council will decide at its June 9 meeting whether to allow extended fireworks sales, although prospects look iffy. Currently, fireworks sales are allowed in Iola from outside the current eight-day window, from…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Planned Parenthood halted abortions in Missouri on Tuesday after the state’s top court ordered new rulings in the tumultuous legal saga over a ban that voters struck down last November.…
NPR and three of its member stations filed suit in federal court Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s White House over the president’s executive order to block funding for public media. Trump’s order called for an…