Paul Zirjacks runs his finger along the freshly sanded checkerboard. He winces a little. After hours of meticulously cutting, gluing and finally sanding the surface of his latest woodworking project, Zirjacks still isn’t satisfied. “Who…

Juan Carlos Mendez-Alvarado died of natural causes while working at the new elementary school construction site, Iola Police Chief Jared Warner said. Mendez-Alvarado’s body was found the afternoon of Jan. 31 in a portable restroom…

TOPEKA — The Senate Redistricting Committee plans to introduce maps for new Senate districts next week, while awaiting outcome of two lawsuits challenging the legality of a new congressional map. Committee members met briefly Wednesday in…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO allies accused Russia of misleading the world with “disinformation” by saying it was returning some troops to bases, charging that Moscow has instead added as many as 7,000 more troops…

TOPEKA — Acupuncturist Paul Finney leveraged inherited farmland to finance renovation of a small historic hotel in downtown Humboldt. Finney can be blunt about how that venture from 1998 to 2006 turned out: “The hotel…

Leave it to Tom Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas and dean of progressive lobbyists at the Kansas Statehouse, to sum up the challenge facing education advocates. “In this building, nothing stays dead,” he said…

INDEPENDENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Coffeyville man has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for 25 years for the killing of a woman in Independence. Benjamin Mason, 20, was sentenced Tuesday in…

An opportunity to wear jeans to work has turned into a donation for the Court Appointed Special Advocates program. Bank employees picked CASA as the beneficiary of their once-a-month funds collected in $5 increments for…

MORAN — With enrollment numbers dwindling, Marmaton Valley High School will no longer offer a number of business classes. “It was a tough decision to make,” USD 256 Superintendent of Schools Kim Ensminger said. “We…

In late January, billionaire podcaster Chamath Palihapitiya stirred up controversy when he declared that “nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs,” the mostly Muslim ethnic group in northeast China that has been targeted since…