TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Marion police chief who led a raid last year on the town’s weekly newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice and is accused of persuading a potential…

Iola City Council members are one step closer to revising the city’s temporary business licensing ordinance. Council member Joelle Shallah presented the council with recommendations for the Transient/Temporary Business ordinance that had previously been discussed…

Next year’s budget for USD 257 will likely include a slight tax increase, school board members were told Monday. Most of the funding is based on enrollment numbers, which have been declining except for a…

Summer break comes to an end this week for several area school districts, including Iola’s USD 257, where classes resume Wednesday and Thursday. Teachers at Iola Elementary School kept busy Tuesday preparing their rooms. Classes…

TOPEKA — The next personalized license plate will feature the Flint Hills design after more than 30,000 Kansans voted among five potential designs. Kansas Department of Revenue spokesman Zach Denny said the design was the…

HUMBOLDT — Blame it on prosperity. Though Humboldt’s mill levy will remain the same, the tax rate will increase slightly. That’s because property values in much of southeast Kansas have increased, based on comparable sales,…

Elon Musk’s much-awaited interview with former President Donald Trump was marred by technical glitches on Monday, with people unable to join the audio conversation on X’s Spaces platform. Eighteen minutes into a conversation that was…

Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Saturday that it had been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents. The campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran’s involvement,…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The weather system previously known as Hurricane Debby was not quite done with parts of the U.S. Sunday as flood warnings remained in effect in North Carolina and thousands were without power…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the Ukrainian army’s incursion into the Kursk region, which has caused more than 100,000 civilians to flee and embarrassed the Kremlin, is an attempt…