The first couple of weeks of unprecedented online and at-home teaching have gone relatively smoothly, USD 257 administrators said. With schools shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, school districts have had to develop plans for…

“They haven’t even proven it helps” treat COVID-19, said Melanie Johnson, former Humboldt cheerleading coach and mom of four, in relation to the drug hydroxychloroquine, more commonly known as Plaquenil. Johnson has been getting treatment…

It’d been a few weeks since Mitzi Beck had been able to see her grandchildren.  It may be a few more before she gets that opportunity. But in the interim, the Iola woman took advantage…

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt council members unanimously agreed Monday evening to sell the old city hall for $27,500 to Larry Steward, owner of CDL Electric. “I had been working on the sale for a while,” said…

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Kansas prison officials said Monday that 113 inmates at a work-release facility where a resident tested positive for the coronavirus have been relocated to a facility where an outbreak is ongoing…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Beaten down by the coronavirus outbreak, the world economy in 2020 will suffer its worst year since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the International Monetary Fund says in its latest forecast.…

BERLIN — Police in Germany say a man dressed in a rabbit costume has been fined for lighting a fire in his garden to celebrate Easter. So-called Easter Fires are a common practice in German-speaking…

K-State is launching a program to help teens and tweens take care of younger children.  With the closing of schools and preschools due to coronavirus, parents may be in sudden need of someone to assist…

What the country needs right now is a plan. Actually it needs lots of plans for how things are going to work if COVID-19 sticks around for months or more. What are we going to…

April, most experts say, is when we will see the coronavirus peak. Does that mean things will gradually return to normal afterwards? That is everyone’s hope. But recovering from the costs — both social and…