Learn about how to keep you and your family during extreme weather at Monday’s “Storm Fury on the Plains,” at 6:30 p.m. in the Creitz Recital Hall in the Bowlus Center. The program is free…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Commerce announced Thursday significant changes to its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) – Community Facilities program to allow a rolling application process, lower local match requirements and an expanded…

Iola City Council members expressed a willingness Monday to see the city set up a land bank program. A land bank is essentially a collection of community-owned abandoned, vacant or otherwise foreclosed properties that could…

Kansas communities in the last two years have requested more than $600 million for water needs, stunning state officials as they work to allocate funds to a fraction of the projects. Dawn Buehler, chair of…

EUREKA — Greenwood County, in partnership with the Southwind Extension District, has announced an educational program focused on sheep and goat management, along with market and marketing strategies, to be held on Dec. 12, at…

High schoolers spoke to Iola’s Rotary Club Thursday about their experience at RYLA, Rotary’s youth leadership training program, held earlier this fall in Salvation Army’s Camp Heart O’ Hills in Welling, Okla. Griffin Westervelt and…

The last day to sign up for Iola’s annual Adopt-A-Child program is Monday, Nov. 4 from 1 to 3 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. at Iola’s First Baptist Church, 801 N. Cottonwood St. Parents,…

Lisa Wicoff of Allen Community College wants permission to use Riverside Park for a pilot CDL training program. Wicoff, Dean of Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Industry at ACC, addressed Iola City Council members…

Allen Community College is redefining what it means to teach early childhood education and helping fill a labor shortage in the industry. “Any of us, in our work, are happier and more effective when we…

When Atsuya Hayashi considers what he’ll miss about Kansas after he returns to Japan, the words come easily. Big, wide skies. How the stars burn in a coal black sky at night. And he won’t…