A collaboration between educators and business leaders requires several components, notes Melissa Stiffler, career and technical education director for Iola-USD 257. Schools want to produce skilled graduates; businesses want a productive workforce. That said, the…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ state school board has scheduled a special meeting for Friday to discuss personnel issues after Education Commissioner Randy Watson made what one board member called an inappropriate remark during a…

Recycling efforts in Allen County are continuing, thanks to a dedicated group of advocates. A new recycle center will open to the north of Pete’s convenience store on East State Street. Thompson Poultry formerly occupied…

This graphic shows how temperatures have fluctuated from a high of 70 to 19 over the past week. 

The Marmaton Valley school district will get a little more wind farm money this year, and other school districts will see a financial windfall as well. But there are no guarantees the county will continue…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Many Kansas legislators want to make sure that counties don’t change the longstanding tradition of electing sheriffs by enshrining the policy in the state constitution. The Republican-controlled state House gave first-round…

BRUSSELS (AP) — With the smell of war in the air over Europe, world leaders got over the shock of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to deploy troops to separatist regions of eastern Ukraine and…

HUMBOLDT — Bequeathed with a gift from an anonymous benefactor, the Humboldt Historical Society will soon expand. Plans are in the works to erect a new building at the corner of Eighth and New York…

TOPEKA — As the daughter of a retired, small-town funeral director, Heather Braum says she has walked through the cemetery numerous times. And, she told lawmakers Monday, she noticed something about the older sections. “There…

MOSCOW (AP) — The U.S. and Russian presidents tentatively agreed to meet in a last-ditch effort to stave off a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, even as sustained shelling continued today in a conflict in…