Iola City Council members will discuss a laundry list of infrastructure projects Tuesday that could be funded with federal dollars. There’s much that could be handled if the city receives its share of the Bipartisan…

City council members agreed Monday to split the costs of extending a sewer line to PrairieLand Partners’ site on the northeast edge of town. The John Deere dealership plans to build a new 64,000-square-foot facility…

By a vote of 4-3, Iola City Council agreed Monday to help extend water to the property boundary of where PrairieLand Partners plans to build a new facility. The 25-acre site is part of an…

Representatives of PrairieLand Partners plan to ask the Iola City Council for help building infrastructure for a new John Deere facility on recently annexed land. The PrairieLand Partners representatives will attend a Council meeting at…

TOPEKA — For Kansas, the move toward greener forms of transportation is hardly electrifying.  A scorecard from advocacy group the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy ranks the state 31st, with a score of 16…

A construction company is crying foul over the Iola City Council’s decision to go with another bidder to handle a street extension project in north Iola. Kent Wicker is president of Heck & Wicker, Inc.…

Iola City Council members agreed that even with costs higher than projected, and no known developer ready to build, extending streets and utilities through an undeveloped part of Iola is worth the investment. Council members…

Extending infrastructure to allow for development in north Iola will be a bit pricier than expected. Iola City Council members will discuss bids on Monday for extending a street into what will be known as…

TOPEKA — An overwhelming majority of the Kansas Legislature approved a budget bill allocating more than $120 million to raise salaries of state employees and delivering $220 million to assist cities and counties eager to…

More than 54,000 lead service pipes carry drinking water to Kansas families, according to a new estimate from the Environmental Protection Agency. New lead water pipes have been banned for more than 30 years. But…