Tim Blankenship, the 8th grade science teacher at Iola Middle School, went to Wyoming to hunt for fossils in 2003, with minimal success. A couple of weeks later, he returned to his farm in Chetopa,…

“Am I going to die today?” Billie Call asked her son, Terry. “Is this the day?”  “I told her no, that we’d find a way to get her out,” Terry Call said Thursday.  But in…

More than a dozen bald eagles, juveniles and adults, stopped for lunch on Thursday afternoon at the Neosho River near the spillway at U.S. 54, west of Iola. The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks…

OSWEGO — The Labette County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a fire beneath a bridge spanning the Neosho River. The fire, discovered Saturday, marked the second time in the past few months logs accumulated beneath the…

Riley Whitworth of Humboldt, right, teamed up with Eric Mussulman of Chanute to land this 54-pound flathead catfish monday evening from the Neosho River near Humboldt.

The discovery of a body in southern Allen County may have resolved the 5½-year mystery of a missing Iola man. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) and the Allen County Sheriff’s Office are conducting an…

HUMBOLDT — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has rescinded a stream advisory for an unnamed tributary of Neosho River near Humboldt. Water samples show no health risk associated with the river, according…

HUMBOLDT — Residents and animals should not enter the water near the Neosho River and its tributary near Humboldt because of possible contamination due to an improvement project. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment…

The Neosho River faces a flood warning until Saturday morning. The river reached flood stage Thursday morning and was expected to crest at 26.5 feet just after midnight, according to the National Weather Service. The…

PRATT, Kan. (AP) — Kansas fisheries officials are working to determine how a 39.5 lb. alligator gar ended up in a state river. The Kansas Wildlife & Parks said an angler pulled the gar last…