Adventure and learning opportunities abound for USD 257 students this summer. In 2013, SAFE BASE took 68 students and an assortment of adults on a trip to Colorado, offering hiking and whitewater rafting. A little…

Elderly couple die in house fire EMPORIA — An elderly couple killed in a Sept. 22 house fire has been identified. The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office identified Lee Roy Phillips, 88, and Mary Ann Phillips,…

Ryan Diehl, son of Shirley and the late Richard Diehl of Iola, was recently awarded the 2022 National Collegiate Honors Council Ron Brandolini Award for Excellence. The award recognizes a two-year college honors director or…

HUTCHINSON — Hutchinson residents can bring more chickens home to roost. The Hutchinson City Council voted Tuesday to increase the number of chickens a resident can own, changing it from three to eight chickens on…

HUTCHINSON — Reno County is asking for proposals from companies to utilize the landfill gas that is generated from the Reno County Landfill.  County commissioners approved the plan on Tuesday, the Hutchinson news reported. The…

Glenn Koster knows all too well the plight facing foster children. He speaks from experience, having gone through the system himself as a youth in the 1960s, a turbulent time that left him scarred in…

Roughly 150 schoolchildren and adult leaders ventured from Iola to Hutchinson Thursday for the weekly SAFE BASE summer program field trip. Thursday’s excursion took the group to Hutchinson’s Strataca Underground Salt Museum. The museum is…

Allen County’s airport could become a hub for wildfire fighting. An aerial firefighting crew based in Hutchinson wants to use the local airport as a place to refill their water tanks if there is a…

RENO COUNTY, Kan. (AP) — One person was found dead Sunday as firefighters worked to contain a wildfire that burned 12,000 acres in south-central Kansas. Reno County Emergency Management officials said one person who had…

CHENEY, Kan. (AP) — For years, Kansas farmer Clint Bauer has struggled with keeping weeds out of his row crops. Along with keeping living roots in the ground, organic practices and no-till methods, he tried…