Killing two birds with one stone. This was the idea behind Mammoth Sports Construction’s presentation at Monday evening’s joint meeting of the Iola City Council and school board.  Riverside Park poses flooding issues for the…

Iola school board members agreed to take the next step to improve Riverside Park and pay half the cost of a design plan for flood mitigation, but expressed concern about the total cost of the…

WASHINGTON — Exactly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, the battles rage among both advocates and lawmakers over the future of reproductive rights at the state and…

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Tuesday modified Donald Trump’s gag order, freeing the former president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush money criminal trial that led to his felony…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma virtual school board’s approval of what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious school is unconstitutional and must be rescinded, the state Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The…

The first weekend of summer brought a tragic yet familiar pattern for American cities wracked by gun violence as mass shootings left dozens dead or wounded at a party in Alabama, an entertainment district in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday jumped into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear an appeal from the Biden administration seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care. The justices’ action…

Fun and games kept festival-goers of all ages occupied in the summer heat Saturday with the annual LaHarpe Days celebration.

Jane Breckinridge is a fifth-generation farmer but is the first in her family to raise butterflies. “Some people have hogs as livestock or they have goats,” she said. “I’m just very, very lucky because my…

Ham radio enthusiasts gathered at Riverside Park Saturday for their annual Field Day.  It’s an opportunity for ham radio operators to practice skills for responding to an emergency and make contact with stations across the…