Iola High School’s Green Team will collect electronic waste Saturday morning at the Recreation Community Building in Riverside Park. This will be the fifth such collection done by IHS students. Another collection will occur next…

HUMBOLDT — Over the next 18 months Humboldt will make the city, physically and philosophically, more compatible to people with disabilities. Council members signed on to an agreement with the federal Department of Justice Monday…

The city’s biggest priority in the future should be ensuring its roads and utilities remain in good shape, Iola City Council members agreed Monday. Billed as a three-hour brainstorming session, the council visited at length…

Roxanne Hutton’s mathematical skills and attention to detail are a boon at the racetrack. Not as a means to beat the odds, but as the official lap counter at Humboldt Speedway. From April to October,…

No bomb exploded Monday morning at Iola High School. “One Monday down and two to go,” said Principal David Grover of a message scribbled in an IHS restroom that said a bomb would “go off…

It was incorrectly reported in Monday’s Register in the Joy Gibson obituary that she was survived by a son Tommy. She was survived by a son Timothy. The Register regrets the error.

Virgil L. Grizzle, 82, of Chanute died Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. Virgil was born Sept. 19, 1929, in Iola, to George F. and Minnie M. (Jones) Grizzle.…

Dear Editor, I applaud Susan Lynn’s article titled “City council: like a bad movie,” which appeared in Saturday’s paper. Susan hit the nail on the head with her comments regarding city attorney Chuck Apt, plus…

Oregon, Montana and Vermont want to move much faster on health care reform than President Barack Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act will allow. It’s frustrating.  Oregon Gov. John Kitshaber said, “We want to show that…

Maurissa Shafer found the net just once Saturday. But the sophomore’s goal stood up for Allen County Community College’s women. The Red Devil women  beat visiting Coffeyville Community College 1-0. Katie King had an assist…