Susan K. Owens, age 60, of Humboldt, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, at her home surrounded by family.  Susan was born Jan. 31, 1962, in Iola, to Cecil and Freda (Fretz) St.Clair. She graduated…

Iola City Council members will decide Monday whether to greenlight a developer’s plans to convert an old nursing home into an apartment complex. Rocky Meo of Meo Development Co. LLP, De Soto, has applied for…

Iolan Wanda Carleen Brooks, 70, died Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022, at her home. Wanda was born March 12, 1951, in Fort Scott, to Verne K. Ross and Leora (Bruner) Ross.  Wanda and Vaughn C. Brooks…

Iola Community Involvement Task Force members spruced up the flower pots around Iola’s downtown square this week, erecting wood flowers made from scratch by Iolan Tom Nevans.

MULBERRY, Kan. (AP) — Residents of a small city in southeast Kansas may continue a lawsuit that claims energy utility BP gouged them with hefty price increases for natural gas during freezing weather last year,…

Three Mustangs took home first place honors when Iola High School hosted the Pioneer League wrestling tournament on Thursday. Trent Jones, Dominic McGee, and Wyatt Westervelt were crowned kings of the league. TJ Taylor, who…

TORONTO (AP) — Ontario’s premier declared a state of emergency Friday in reaction to the truck blockades in Ottawa and at the U.S. border and said he will enact laws to crack down on those…

Dear editor, Adding insult to injury, the Kansas Senate caved to one of its members this week to get passage of a voting map by adding legislation to eliminate the requirement for childhood immunizations. No…

Dear editor, Forty-seven years ago, my family and I moved from Colborn to Garfield Street. At that time, there were only a few buildings north of us — the nursing home built by Jim Lewis,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Friday that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could come within the week, possibly within the next two days, even before the end of the Winter Olympics, and urged…