Iola High’s Mustangs are undefeated in Southeast Kansas League baseball action.The Mustangs have powered past Coffeyville and Chanute to go 4-0 in league and overall. The Mustangs connected for 10 home runs in those four…

As Japanese and world experts struggle to stop dangerous emissions from the nuclear plants damaged by the earthquake and following tsunami, opposition to plans for more nuclear plants grows. An anti-nuclear political party in Germany…

Iola High School students will collect old electronics — computers, cell phones, stereos, fans, modems, etc. — from 9 a.m. to noon — as a recycling project at the New Community Building in Riverside Park.The…

The good news: Iola and Allen County have a number of assets that could draw in prospective businesses to the area.“The bad news,” former Iola Mayor John McRae said, “is that it’s a well-kept secret.”McRae,…

A seven-month endeavor to bring a veterans health care facility to Iola — which until last week had been kept under wraps — was brought before Iola commissioners and a standing-room-only crowd at City Hall…

Edward T. “Tim” Harrington Jr., 53, of Colony died Friday, April 1, 2011, at the St. Francis Via Christi Hospital in Wichita.  Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service…

Carl “Junior” Dickinson, 87, died Thursday, March 31, 2011, in Owasso, Okla.He was born on July 10, 1923, in Fort Scott, to Cleo Carl and Nellie Mae (Lesprance) Dickinson. He was reared and educated in…

Cowley County Community College’s Tigers ripped the Allen County Community College’s Red Devils in three of four games over the weekend.In a home four-game Jayhawk Eastern Division series, the Red Devils claimed a 5-4 win…

Playing at home and in the sunshine, finally, Allen County Community College’s softball team won six games this weekend.The Red Devils swept Brown Mackie on Friday, winning 1-0 and 6-5. Allen County scored a run…

RICHMOND — Marmaton Valley High’s track teams were short-handed Friday but opened the 2011 season at the Central Heights High Invitational.Rachel Boyd took sixth in the girls’ shot put with a throw of 25 feet,…