Several nearby highways will be affected by road construction or rehabilitation projects, Iola City Council members were told Monday.Darrin Petrowsky, area engineer for the Kansas Department of Transportation, briefed the council on the more prominent…

Iola City Council members were approached twice Monday on facilitating ways for visitors to “do their business” in downtown Iola and Riverside Park.Adding public restrooms at both areas was broached by visitors to Monday’s council…

The seeds of change for school finance are being sewn in the Senate Committee on Education. Hearings begin today on a plan led by its chairman, Republican Steve Abrams, who for years has been itching…

Kansas is home to one of the “most hated families in America,” the Fred Phelps family of Topeka, according to Susan Kraus, a Lawrence author.The late Phelps and his family are famous for their Westboro…

Eugene Myrick reflected on the at-times painful negotiation — and then renegotiation — of the emergency medical services contract service between Iola and Allen County over the last two years.“It was probably the most stressful…

Austin Sigg notes he is the exception.The 2005 Iola High School graduate native left town briefly for college and a one-year stint in Iraq with the Kansas Army National Guard, intent on returning to his…

Rep. Kent Thompson’s pragmatic nature is a burr under the saddles of ultraconservatives in the Kansas House, but he’s comfortable with positions taken, he told the Register Friday afternoon.Thompson, a Republican, represents the 9th District,…

Allen Community College’s softball team dropped four games this weekend.On Friday, the Lady Red Devils lost two games at Hutchinson. Allen lost game one 8-0. ACC lost the second game, 5-4, in the bottom of…

John Johnson Larney, 73, Iola, died Friday, March 20, 2015, at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice in Wichita.John was born July 21, 1941, in Little Axe, Okla., located in Cleveland County, the son of John and…

Esther L. Weiland, 82, Iola, died Friday, March 20, 2015, at St. Francis-Via Christi Hospital in Wichita.Esther was born Aug. 29, 1932, on a farm west of Iola, the daughter of Rollin Clifford and Nellie…