Every minute matters during an emergency. So when officials with Saint Luke’s Health System took over Allen County Regional Hospital, they were concerned that so many local residents chose to seek care — especially emergency…

Some doctors enjoy working in a small town, where they can develop more personal relationships with their patients. Some doctors specialize in a particular field, focusing their time and attention on a specific goal. Some…

Quick help for suicidal thoughts and other mental health emergencies may soon be as easy as 9-8-8. The United States’ first nationwide three-digit mental health crisis hotline goes live on Saturday. It’s designed to be…

Floods? Tornadoes? Fires? … No problem. Allen County’s new Emergency Operations Center (EOC) has got you covered. The center and its upgrades were made possible thanks to $120,000 in federal CARES Act money, and comes…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday that a measure  approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature to rewrite Kansas’ emergency management laws while limiting her authority during the coronavirus pandemic is “reasonable.”  Legislators…

TOPEKA — House and Senate Republican members on the State Finance Council moved Friday to block approval of the one-month extension of the Kansas disaster declaration for COVID-19 sought by Gov. Laura Kelly. GOP members…

MINNEAPOLIS —Over the years, Bryan Korbel has been teased by co-workers, friends and relatives who said he was a little nuts for stockpiling months of food, water and other supplies for a disaster that never…

As we all do what we can to limit the spread of the coronavirus, help is coming from an unexpected source. Pennsylvania’s distilleries. Many in the region are cutting back on their spirit-making operations and…

PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales declared a seven-day state of emergency today as oppressive conditions fanned around 100 wildfires. Around 2,000 firefighters were battling the blazes, half of…

MORAN — A resident was injured this afternoon when an explosion destroyed his house. Max Houk, 62, was at home when the explosion blew away the front walls to his home about six miles north and…