Sabrina Gregerson, valedictorian of the  Le Roy High School Class of 2001, recently earned her Ph.D. Gregerson is the daughter of Rob and Teresa Gregerson and granddaughter of Wilma and Viktor Morrison and Dorothy and…

With minimal splash compared to past debates, Iola City Council members approved a series of water rate increases Monday. The price of water will increase 10 percent beginning May 1, another 10 percent in May…

Ty Scharff, a senior at Marmaton Valley High School, has been awarded an Alumni Legacy License Plate Scholarship to Pittsburg State University.  Scharff has been accepted into the Honors College at PSU where he plans…

Dale E. Saffels, chairman of the Kansas Corporation Commission, said the KCC has been informed by the Interstate Commerce Commission that the application for reconsideration by the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway for the…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators aren’t ready to declare that marijuana possession never should be a felony, rejecting proposals Monday to lower penalties for third-time offenders and to release others from prison. The House…

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died.…

GARDEN CITY — The number of suicides in northwest Kansas shot up by more than half in recent years. Twenty counties in the region saw suicides climb by 57% from 2014 through 2018. That jump…

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization says a small group of desert locusts has entered Congo, marking the first time the voracious insects have been seen in the Central African country…

COLONY — Crest head coach Travis Hermreck warned his Lancers that Southern Coffey County had improved a lot from its 71-36 loss against Crest at the season’s start. The message fell on deaf ears. It…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man awarded more than $1.5 million on Monday after spending 23 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit plans to continue his fight against those…