Iola Elementary School’s first- and fourth-graders presented “Space Case,” a music program featuring a space-and-Halloween-themed skit, followed by Halloween songs Tuesday evening at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. 

School board members threw bananas and turtle shells at each other Monday night in an enthusiastic, if not skilled, game of Mario Kart at Iola Middle School. They learned a hands-on lesson about IMS’s new…

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a five-story building where displaced Palestinians were sheltering in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 60 people early Tuesday, more than half of them…

TOPEKA — An adviser for Republican congressional candidate Derek Schmidt says the “fake newspaper” Democratic rival Nancy Boyda mailed to 160,000 households is “illegal” and “dishonest.” Schmidt, a three-term Kansas attorney general and former state…

When voting this week and on Election Day next Tuesday, voters are reminded to leave their promotional candidate attire at home. According to County Clerk Shannon Patterson, any item of clothing that alludes to a…

Local food truck vendors will likely get a break on their annual license fees while those from other areas will pay the full fee, Iola council members said at their meeting Monday night.  A special…

BRUSSELS (AP) — North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to train and fight in Ukraine within “the next several weeks,” the Pentagon said Monday, in a move that Western leaders say will…

A “blessing.”  That is the common answer of Neodesha High School (NHS) graduates when they are asked how they view the Neodesha Promise scholarship program. The program, announced in November 2019, covers tuition and fees…

Many of the buildings and roads Allen County residents enjoy on a daily basis were built in the 1930s as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal public works projects. The Works Progress Administration…

After Iran said it would respond to Israel’s Saturday strikes on its missile and air defense systems in a corresponding fashion, the Israeli government moved its regular meeting to an undisclosed secret bunker. Israeli officials…