Santa will pack his sleigh full of enchanting gifts Wednesday night and fly across the world to deliver them to children. The Register had the opportunity to talk to someone who knows Santa very well…

Monday morning 10 members of the Iola Fire Department left the fire station a little before 10 o’clock, and formed a short caravan of sport utility vehicles and trucks. A fire engine and an ambulance…

Year-end transfers, a normally routine exercise done every December by city planners to ensure Iola’s funds are in balance, has once again put the city’s utility reserves under the microscope.City Administrator Carl Slaugh said the…

Cathy Darlene Nelson, 64, Iola, passed away Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, while under hospice care at Windsor Place Care Home in Iola.Cathy was born Oct. 30, 1950, in Killeen, Texas, to Clay and Mary (Hester)…

The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas (CHC/SEK) has been awarded a $170,000 grant from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City (HCF) to support access to health care services for the uninsured in…

One of Iola’s most enduring holiday charitable efforts had perhaps the biggest year in its history Saturday.Iola Elks Lodge No. 569 provided food baskets for 70 area families, nearly twice as many as in years…

Come meet the new boss — same as the old.Former Allen County Attorney Jerry Hathaway earned the endorsement Sunday of local Republicans to refill his old position over the  next two years.Of the 36 voting…

A celebration of life will be at 4 p.m. Saturday at Iola’s Senior Center at the intersection of Jefferson and Jackson avenues.Raney, a former Iolan, was living in Wichita at the time of his death…

Dorotha Ann “Dottie” Lee, 75, Salina, passed away Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014, at Salina Regional Health Center.Dorotha was born in Iola on May 14, 1939, a daughter of the late Crystal Maxine (Jensen) and Franklin…

John W. Lust, 91, died Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014, in Iola.Mr. Lust was born near LaHarpe on Nov. 23, 1923. He grew up on the farm his grandfather homesteaded in the 1800s. John graduated from…