The tornado that tore through a portion of Lake Kahola Thursday night as part of a slow-moving storm system has been classified as an EF1. EF-1 is the second lowest level on the Fujita Scale, which classifies tornadoes based on intensity through measurements of wind speeds and damage caused. EF1 tornadoes are classifie...

An Emporia man was hospitalized following an injury crash near Council Grove Thursday morning. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol crash log, the accident was reported at 5:50 a.m. on Kansas Highway 177 northbound, just south of Dam Road. KHP says a 2023 Toyota Corolla, driven by 22-year-old Jason Foust of Topeka, w...

Lyon County Commissioners have approved an agreement for prevention and early intervention services through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. During their regular action meeting, commissioners approved signing the agreement that will see funds for the services provided by KDHE and passed through K-State ...

Plans continue developing at the city and state levels for helping workers to be displaced later this year when Michelin ends part of its local operations. A week ago, Michelin announced the upcoming end of its agriculture track manufacturing, ending around 100 jobs by New Year's Eve. On KVOE's Newsmaker segment Thursd...

An Emporia man accused of using a vehicle to threaten another person and damage property near downtown Emporia in one case and choking the same person in another will return to court over the next two weeks. Seth Giroux has a motion hearing April 29 ahead of a pretrial hearing May 7 in the case dating back to mid-March...

Emporia tennis hit the home courts on Friday for the EHS Invite. Brecken Hines was the top Spartan at singles in tenth. The sophomore had a 2-2 day including 8-1 and 8-2 victories in his middle matches. The Black and Red back in action hosting an invite on Tuesday.

Emporia High softball dropped both league contests in Manhattan on Friday. In game one, the Indians came out on top 4-1. Emporia scored first in the top of the first before being shutout the final six innings. Yzabel Ultreras reached on an error and Alivia Barrett brought her home with a triple. Manhattan answered imme...

Emporia State athletics announced Friday that the interim tag would be removed from Megan Hill and that she would be the head coach moving forward for Emporia State softball. Hill had spent the previous two years with the Lady Hornets as assistant coach. Hill previously was the head coach at Northern Oklahoma College...

The Emporia State track & field team wrapped up the regular season at the Alex Francis Classic in Hays, Kan. on Thursday and won three events. Lou Dumas took the women's 100m hurdles in 14.21 seconds, the third-best time in Lady Hornet history. Dumas later teamed up with Scarlett Begley, Ava Markley, and Isabella...

Emporia High soccer continued its strong season Thursday, rolling past Topeka West 5-0 at Spartan Field behind a balanced offensive attack and another dominant defensive effort. The Lady Spartans wasted little time setting the tone. Rylie Mitchell opened the scoring with 23 minutes left in the first half, and Peyton Ch...