LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Zaila Avant-garde understood the significance of what she was doing as she stood on the Scripps National Spelling Bee stage, peppering pronouncer Jacques Bailly with questions about Greek and…

Usually by this time of year our yard is a pale yellow. Just inches below the surface is a limestone shelf. So every time it rains, it greens up fast. Two weeks without rain in…

One of the standard tropes we hear from outsiders about Los Angeles is that it is located in a desert — a dry biome that cannot sustain our millions of people without importing water from…

Four Iola High School graduates in the class of 1941 who all became ministers are in Iola for the reunion of their class and have been invited to preach in Iola churches Sunday. They are…

Just a few weeks before COVID-19 vaccines became available, Teddi Van Kam got sick from the virus. The director of the Crawford County health department, in far southeast Kansas, was laid out for four weeks.…

TOPEKA — Construction on nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in modernization and expansion projects for critical Kansas roadways will soon be underway across the state, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Thursday. Eight projects are planned…

Stephen Drew Dillow, age 48, won his battle with cancer on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, in Waverly, surrounded by his family.  Stephen was born Aug. 13, 1972, to Howard and Cheryl (Johnson) Dillow in Joliet,…

IOLA MUNICIPAL COURT Judge Patti Boyd Convicted as follows with fines assessed: Paul F. Barras, Iola, interference with law enforcement, obstruction, $315 Ian A. Cunningham, Iola, duty to give information and render aid, $315 Donald…

Howard Reiter gave the Communion Meditation over Jeff Jenkins’ text, “Independence.” We celebrate Independence Day each year as a remembrance of winning our freedom. Jesus also came to earth to set us free, and to…

Evergy customers in parts of Missouri may be repaying electric costs for the next 15 years following February’s winter storm that forced power outages across the Midwest.  Kansas City-area customers in both Kansas and Missouri,…