The football stadium at Riverside Park will get security cameras after vandalism earlier this year.  USD 257 board members approved the purchase of eight cameras to be stationed around the stadium, including at entrances to…

HUMBOLDT — Though it may have tugged at the heartstrings of the community, the Humboldt Police Department has no business organizing an Adopt-a-Grandparent gift-giving effort, advised city attorney Fred Works.  Simply put, organizing the project…

In a major boost to Iola’s efforts to address its housing shortage, city council members voted Monday to sell all 22 residential lots in the Cedarbrook Third Addition to Lakeview Investment Properties, an LLC owned…

Sgt. Lucas Hamlin told Saturday morning’s gathering that he joined the military at age 17 with one goal in mind, “to complete college.” “I didn’t grow up with money, I earned what I had at…

SABETHA — Sabetha High School’s football stadium was crammed with football fans near and far  for Friday’s Class 2A state quarterfinal showdown between Sabetha and Humboldt High. Sure, almost all of them were there to…

Monday was Jared Wheeler’s first day on the job as Thrive Allen County’s new economic development director. He’s stayed busy. “Someone asked me if it felt like I was drinking from a firehose,” said Wheeler…

Archie Specht, who served with the U.S. Army in Korea and died in 2015, was posthumously awarded the Ambassador for Peace proclamation from the Republic of Korea, arranged by Chief Warrant Officer Nick Hay of…

“Rockabilly” is the original rock-and-roll, according to Lee Rocker. “It started, arguably, in the 1950s. It’s really a combination of blues and country, with rhythms that are just purely an American form of music,” he…

The High School District Honor Band Clinic will be on Dec. 2. They auditioned in person on Nov. 4.  The Middle School District Honor Band Clinic is on Jan. 27. They competed by submitting an…

For as long as there’s been war, there has been a need to comfort those who fight it. The horrors of the battlefield, the inhumanity and pain, they stay with soldiers. Enter chaplains, whose existence…