Students from six area community colleges flexed their encyclopedic muscles during the Academic Excellence Challenge Saturday at Allen Community College. Clarie Moran, Iola, said she joined the ACC team because of similar competitions as a…

HUMBOLDT — A Waverly man was flown to an Overland Park hospital after being injured Sunday morning in a two-vehicle accident just south of Humboldt.Kyle Henry, 23, Waverly, was driving a 1994 Toyota flatbed pickup…

Solving school funding and a budget deficit could be at hand if reason were to prevail, Rep. Kent Thompson told the Register Sunday afternoon.The immediate challenge is a $380 million shortfall for the fiscal year…

There was a time in what otherwise were the halcyon days of post-World War II when the word “polio” had parents suffering the throes of anxiety.For whatever reason, the virus reached epidemic proportions, until Jonas…

Two events announced in Topeka on Thursday will greatly affect ongoing efforts to set the state’s financial ship on a correct and steady course, as well as how to rewrite the way public schools are…

Humboldt native Merle Dewayne Wiles, 77, brother of Dale Wiles of Humboldt, died Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, in Riverview, Fla. He was 77.Wiles graduated from Humboldt High in 1957, served in the Marines and was…

A celebration of life service for Robert A. Ball Sr. (1949-2016) will be at 2 p.m. March 25 at the Humboldt First Baptist Church, 118 N. Seventh, Humboldt.The community is invited.

Elvin Foster, 94, Lone Elm, passed away on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at Windsor Place, Iola.Elvin was the second of two children born to Harry and Bertha (Jones) Foster. He was born on the Foster…

Perry Joseph Allen, 85, Raymore, Mo., died Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, at Foxwood Springs Living Center in Raymore. A Memorial Mass will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Our Lady Of Lourdes Catholic Church in…

A question 50 years in the making may be answered soon.A petition filed by the USD 257 Board of Education is asking a legal authority — Judge Robert Fairchild of Lawrence — to examine the…