Kansans are aging, moving to urban centers and becoming less white. Those broad findings from a detailed report about the state’s next five decades by the Kansas Health Foundation and Kansas Health Institute shouldn’t surprise…

A change in voting districts could encourage more people to run for school board seats or simplify the election process, USD 257 Board of Education members said at their meeting Monday. The board is considering…

HUMBOLDT — In Samuel Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” is the lament: “Water, water, everywhere, and all the board did shrink; water, water, everywhere nor any drop to drink.” Humboldt, situated on the…

In a meeting that took less time to finish than a Sudoku puzzle, the Iola City Council was in and out in 14 minutes Monday night. The agenda featured only a single item of “new”…

High School Baseball: Iola Mustangs The Iola High School baseball team was showered with accolades by online sports publication “Sports In Kansas” over the weekend. The Mustangs earned multiple spots on the 4A-II All-State first…

HUMBOLDT — Two months ago, USD 258 applied for a grant, which, if successful, would deliver to the Humboldt school district a much-needed FEMA storm shelter. On Monday, Superintendent of Schools Kay Lewis was able…

One of the year’s major literary events is the publication of “Barracoon” by Zora Neale Houston. Houston was an anthropologist and author. Although she was a major figure in the Haarlem Renaissance of the 1920s,…

Arrests reported Iola police officers arrested Legin Johnston, 52, Iola, on an outstanding warrant Saturday afternoon in the 600 block of South Chestnut Street. Officers arrested Erick Schommer, 33, Iola, for suspicion of interfering with…

SINGAPORE (AP) — Clasping hands and forecasting future peace, President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un committed today to “complete denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula during the first meeting in history between a sitting U.S.…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Brock Holt and Jackie Bradley Jr. each delivered a sacrifice fly in the 12th inning, and the Boston Red Sox limited the Baltimore Orioles to five hits in a 2-0 victory Monday…