Part of an Emporia street was blocked Tuesday night due to a broken water main. The street won't reopen until later Wednesday. Underground Utilities crews were alerted about a break in the 600 block of Congress around 4 pm, and Public Works Director Dean Grant says there were actually two breaks needing repairs. A pipe...

The Regional Development Association of East Central Kansas and Emporia Enterprises will both convene with similar agendas this week and next. The RDA Board meeting will be first on the schedule with the main items of business being an update on the RDA President search and a review of the interim RDA President's trans...

As the fallout continues from recent closure announcements by Holiday Resort and Tyson Foods, Flint Hills Technical College is taking several steps to help those affected get the retraining they may need. KVOE's December Tech Talk on Tuesday was dedicated to the assistance effort. President Caron Daugherty says her tea...

A Chase County infrastructure project is set for construction after bid approval by the Kansas Department of Transportation. AM Cohron and Son, based in Atlantic, Iowa, won the bid for a bridge replacement project less than a mile west of Cedar Point. The project zone -- two-tenths of a mile long -- was bid out at almo...

It's hard to build an action plan with a lot of unknowns involved, but that's what Newman Regional Health administrators are doing as they look to help residents affected by the closures of Holiday resort and Tyson Foods over the next several weeks. Newman Regional Health Chief Executive Officer Cathy Pimple says the h...

It was a split for the Emporia High basketball teams at Liberal on Friday night. The Emporia High boys improved to 1-0 with a 71-18 victory over the Redskins while the Lady Red defeated the Lady Spartans, 60-25. In the boys game, Emporia High overcame a slow start down 6-2 but turned it around for a 15-10 lead at the e...

The Emporia State basketball teams split their MIAA opener against Northwest Missouri at White Auditorium on Thursday. The Lady Hornets never trailed and picked up their first Top 10 win since 2019 with a 75-66 victory over the #9 Bearcats. ESU used a 9-0 run to end the first quarter and take a 21-9 lead to the second...

Emporia State quarterback Gunnar Gundy announced that he was in the transfer portal on Thursday afternoon. Gundy was Third Team All-MIAA in his one season at Emporia State and passed for 2751 yards and 23 touchdowns against just 11 interceptions while rushing for 299 yards and five more touchdowns. Gundy finished thi...

The Emporia High boys swim team finished fourth with 291 points in its home invitational on Thursday. Senior Logan Woydziak had the top finish for Emporia High finishing second in the 50-yard freestyle with a state consideration time of 24.32. Luke Marshall finished sixth in the seventh with a time of 25-19. Woydziak f...

Three Emporia State football players have been named to the Division II Conference Commissioner's Association All-Super Region 3 team. It is the third-straight year that multiple Hornets have been honored on the team. Wide receiver Tyler Kahmann and cornerback Jaaron Joseph were named to the first team while offensiv...