Iola Planning Commission members endorsed a special use permit for Shane Lamb of De Soto on Wednesday night to pursue a tire-shredding operation at 17 E. Portland, the site of the former Lehigh Cement Plant. …

Lindsay Myers had worked at the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce for only a few months before she was thrown into the job of interim director. Myers joined the Chamber in late August as an…

When retailers went into a six-week lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, Audacious Boutique owner Kelly Sigg worried she’d lose her business.  But Sigg stuck it out, thanks in part to the store’s…

Kelly Perry has a passion for wellness. That’s why she and her business partner Amber Hodge are opening The Protein Place at 110 S. Jefferson Ave. in Iola. There you’ll be able to buy Perry’s…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Ani Sirois, a respiratory nurse, has spent months caring for coronavirus patients at a Portland, Oregon, hospital, and she’s only getting busier as infections — and hospitalizations — surge before the…

Businessman, Kansan and conservative wonk Charles Koch made headlines last week for saying he regrets his actions in making the U.S. political landscape more partisan. “Boy, did we screw up!” he said. Really? You don’t…

“There were times I thought my brain would explode,” said Sharri Fuller, reflecting on 40 years of business as owner of the Toronto Lumber Company. “When anybody looks back at their life … it’s probably…

“That $7,500 is saving us right now,” said Jessica Quinhones, in reference to a recent CDBG-CV microbusiness grant awarded to Around the Corner coffee shop. Recent Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) were made possible by…

Wall Street’s summer-long party fueled by investors’ appetite for some of the world’s best-known technology companies has come to an abrupt, if not entirely unexpected, halt.  The sharp sell-off that began last Thursday has wiped…

There’s a huge difference between dirt and soil, Zach Louk notes. Dirt is what you wipe off your feet when you come home after a long day’s work. Soil is what will sustain farms for…