Allen County voters narrowly rejected a half-cent sales tax to fund EMS services, which would have shifted the burden from property taxes. The question brought 52% of voters opposed, with a count of 2 ...

Humans share 98.6 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees. Virtually all mammals have primal, aggressive drives. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) If you are younger than 80, you likely have not ...

Poll workers greet voters at the John Silas Bass North Community Building in Iola Tuesday morning. Photo by Tim Stauffer / Iola Register Allen County voters chose a new commissioner and narrowly ...

Marmaton Valley Junior High's Kaiden Woods (22) looks for an opening against Northeast Monday. Photo by Adisyn Pritchard / MVHS Marmaton Valley Junior High’s Kloie Snavely puts up a shot Monday at ...

Incumbent Rep. Mark Schreiber, R-Emporia, talks with Democratic challenger Mic McGuire on Tuesday night at the Lyon County courthouse. When the two spoke, it was apparent from nearly complete returns ...

Derek Schmidt, who lost the 2022 election for governor, is now running for the GOP nominee in the 2nd District congressional race. He has thrown his support behind a federal proposal to impose ...

Iola Middle School's Hunter McDaniel, top, wrestles a foe Tuesday in Burlington. Photo by Richard Luken / Iola Register BURLINGTON — Two middle-schoolers from Iola and three from Humboldt opened the ...

Jon Wells wants to take the politics out of local affairs. “At the local level, community issues aren’t Republican or Democrat,” he said. And for that very reason, Wells is running as an Independent ...

LAWRENCE — Iola High’s Keegan Hill and Cole Moyer beat the rain Saturday as they competed at the Class 3A State Cross Country Meet. Hill, a sophomore, took 44th by completing the 5K course at Rim Rock ...

Iola celebrated Halloween Thursday with variety of activities. Throngs of youngsters flocked to Iola’s Riverside Park for the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Trunk or Treat, the first time the ...

Iola Elementary School’s SAFE BASE and Title I offered a voting-themed Blue Plate Dinner Monday night to teach youngsters about the electoral process.Students selected whether they wanted Assistant ...

Iola Middle School's Kinzley Fountain (40) presses a Burlington player Tuesday. Photo by Richard Luken / Iola Register BURLINGTON — Iola Middle School’s eighth-graders rode a sterling defense Tuesday ...