YATES CENTER — Visiting Cherryvale High outscored the Yates Center High girls 23-8 in the first quarter Thursday and never looked back in a 63-28 victory. “We have to work harder on defense to compete…

Santa Claus is visiting the Iola square this year, and you still have a chance to meet him.  The jolly man in the red suit will return from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday,…

Dear Carolyn: This is so wrenching to say, but I’m going to have to break up with my fiancee, and I’m trying to figure out the least painful way to do it. We’ve been together…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday named Lt. Gov. Lynn Rogers as Kansas’ next state treasurer, and he said he hopes to expand state programs designed to help farmers and prospective homeowners…

Dear editor, It would be a very dull world if everyone thought alike. Thankfully that’s not the case.  It’s important that we respect others’ views. Everyone has the right to be wrong if they want…

Chuck Yeager died this week, at 97. It’s amazing that a great movie has never been made of his life. His was a life that, if anything, was larger than its own lore and legend.…

Dear Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall, As you anticipate serving in the 117th Congress and beyond, I’m asking you to think hard about why you have become a U.S. Senator, one of 100 members of the…

On Wednesday, Kansas joined the effort to subvert the 2020 election results by requesting the U.S. Supreme Court to block Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania from casting their Electoral College votes come Monday. And you…

Jewish Americans from a variety of branches of the faith are celebrating Hanukkah with smaller-than-usual gatherings this year, in hopes of keeping the year-end holiday safe but still joyful as coronavirus cases spike across the…

WICHITA, Kansas — The first of potentially several COVID-19 vaccines could get emergency approval by the end of the week. But that major milestone is just the beginning of the work for local and state…