The warning couldn?t be any more clear and direct: Without near-immediate action, the world will fail to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to a new and highly anticipated report…

High water from a series of heavy rains that started over the weekend spelled trouble for USD 257 bus driver Chad Turner and a middle school passenger Monday morning. Turner’s bus was disabled before sunrise…

The new director of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center settled into his office Monday and introduced himself to the USD 257 Board of Education. Daniel Kays stopped by the board meeting Monday evening to thank…

HUMBOLDT — City Administrator Cole Herder received authority Monday night to give Humboldt’s sewer system a more extensive upgrade. As is, many mains are being lined with a material to make them more efficient. During…

Year-to-date sales tax collections are up by nearly 10 percent in Allen County over last year. The figures, coming from the Kansas State Treasurer?s office, were announced in a press release Monday by Thrive Allen…

Thinking outside the box and knowing a bit of Allen County history led Brad Hesse Jr. to the Farm-City Days medallion Sunday. Hesse found the medallion ?hidden? in the Old Allen County Jail, just off…

Rainy weather is removing the “farm” portion of the 2018 Farm-City Days celebration. Committee member Aaron Franklin said this morning that activities planned Friday and Saturday at Strickler’s Dairy have been canceled because of wet…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Democrat running to replace Kris Kobach as Kansas secretary of state is trying to get voters to repudiate the conservative Republican’s political legacy of tough voter identification laws, which Kobach…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists…

MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Michael intensified into a Category 2 over warm Gulf of Mexico waters today amid fears it would strike Florida on Wednesday as an even stronger hurricane. Mandatory evacuations were issued as…