TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Improving Kansas’ public schools could cost the state as much as $2 billion more a year, depending on its ambitions for boosting student performance, according to a new report Friday that…

Humboldt’s police chief escaped injury after someone attempted to run him over Wednesday, according to a report from the Allen County Sheriff’s Department. Clinton David Johns, 37, Humboldt, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault,…

HUMBOLDT — There are differing opinions of when Humboldt’s rebirth started, if that’s how you want to describe it. Cole Herder points to an organizational meeting about 10 years ago, hosted by Terry Woodbury of…

MORAN — Gabrielle White, 19 and of Charlotte, N.C., didn’t hesitate when asked to donate bone marrow to a stranger. The teen’s willingness to subject herself to the two-day donation process — and the intimidatingly…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Congressional committees and farm groups have crafted language to fix a provision in the federal tax overhaul that gave an unintended tax advantage to farmers who sell their crops to cooperatives instead…

Iola High School students symbolically joined those across the nation in a walkout Wednesday morning to show their concern about gun violence in schools. “There were a lot more people than I was expecting,” said…

The Mildred Store, that happy oasis of foodstuffs and fine conversation in the extreme northeast corner of Allen County, has transformed itself in recent days into the area’s premier spot for affordable prom dresses. How…

Ray Collins, 57, of rural Piqua, passed away Tuesday, March 13, 2018, at Select Specialty Hospital in Kansas City, Kan. Ray was born Aug. 1, 1960, in Iola, the son of Robert E. “Ike” and…

Building a successful business requires a strong work ethic, Marshall Barnhart, the owner of Dudley’s Done Right BBQ, told Current World Affairs students at Allen Community College Tuesday. Barnhart said he spoke to Bill Shirley’s…

Iola’s first-ever aeronautics fair was cleared for takeoff Tuesday afternoon. The weather was clear, the turnout large, the air bright with all variety of aviation facts. The fair included 12 learning booths — 3-D modeling,…