Iola Fire Chief Tim Thyer has seen a lot of changes over the 33 years he’s worked for the department, but the basic mantra remains the same: “Put the wet stuff on the red stuff.”…

Long before Walter “Big Train” Johnson became arguably the greatest pitcher in Major League Baseball history, he was just your average kid on a farm north of Humboldt. Though the family’s white clapboard house is…

Iola’s Hannah Gardner and Landon Carson take part in drills early this morning as part of “Midnight Madness With The Mustangs” to start practice for the 2020-21 basketball season. With Gardner is teammate Becca Sprague.…

FORT DODGE, Iowa — All of the trials, tribulations, thrills and spills of a cross country season unlike any other suddenly came down the last 800 meters, with three teams still within reach of a…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some churches in Kansas suspended indoor, in-person worship services and the capital city’s zoo even tightened its rules as the the state set another record Friday for new coronavirus cases. Public…

It’s not exactly divine intervention, but even the pope considers the U.S. presidential race over. President-elect Joe Biden, a lifelong Roman Catholic, spoke to Pope Francis on Thursday, despite President Donald Trump refusing to concede.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden’s scientific advisers plan to meet with vaccine makers in coming days even as a stalled presidential transition keeps them out of the loop on government plans to inoculate all…

November 1950 Dudley Henderson was elected president of the Chamber of Commerce to take office Jan. 1. ***** The annual 4-H club achievement banquet will be a more gay party this year. Instead of an…

Dr. Kevin Hughes, a Burlington physician who also served Allen County Regional Hospital, has surrendered his license with the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts for the next three years. Hughes had practiced medicine since…

Chalene Nichole (Hutton) VanHoose, 24, of Baldwin City, died Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, at her home. Graveside services will take place at 2 p.m., Friday, at Askren Cemetery, rural Yates Center. Masks and social distancing…