As a weary world struggles to celebrate this holiday season the challenges for Kansas schools and the families they serve are monumental. Fortunately, two key COVID-related events bring hope — the promise of new vaccines…

One of Iola’s oldest businesses will fade into the past at the end of this year, when the Hotel Kelley bids good-bye to its last guest and washes the dishes from the final meal in…

Arrests reported Iola police officers arrested Garry Bradley, 34, Iola, for suspicion of driving while intoxicated and driving while suspended Friday evening in the 800 block of North Sycamore Street. Dallis M. Huddleston, 20, Iola,…

TOPEKA — Poverty in Kansas might look different from how it appears in other states, according to Mary Jane Shanklin, a member of National Nurses United who advocates for the needs of rural Kansans. Shanklin…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have a delicious decision ahead of them this week: Do they play their starters in their regular-season finale against the Los Angeles Chargers, keeping them sharp…

James LeRoy Seigel, 84, died at his residence on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. Jim, or Bud as he was known to his family, was born on April 10, 1936, in Coffeyville, to George Seigel and…

Scoring a hole-in-one on a golf course is a remarkable feat in itself. Doing it on a par-4 hole, as Travis Coffield did Saturday, is even more rare. Coffield scored his ace — officially called…

John Michael “Mike” Stranghoner died Monday, Dec. 22, 2020.  Mike was the sixth son born to Hadley T. Stranghoner, Sr. and Myrnice E. Wells Stranghoner on Nov. 18, 1956. He joined his oldest brother, Hadley,…

LeBron James told the world in 2020 that Black Lives Matter. He helped convince many who had never voted to finally head to the polls. He found more ways to continue elevating the lives of…

Edwin Lee Cole, age 79, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. Edwin was born May 7, 1941, to Lester and Pearl (Teal) Cole in Colony. He attended…