Demolition work at Emporia's KTA service station is set to begin very soon. According to KTA Director of Engineering Glen Scott, the KTA decommissioned the current restaurant at the service area earlier this month with plans to demolish the facility currently in motion. The reason for the demolition, and the addition o...

The Hartford City Council is moving ahead with demolition plans for City Hall. Following a special meeting last week, the City Council approved the low bid from Leiser Excavating at nearly $67,000 for the work. Mayor Kenny Hamman tells KVOE News the building can be physically saved, but it's financially impractical to ...

The nearly month of fun for everyone begins Thursday. The Lyon County Fair begins Thursday with the Friends of 4-H Picnic at 6:30 pm at the Fairgrounds Anderson Building, launching an event schedule that goes until the tractor pull Aug 14. Other schedule highlights: *Show events begin Friday with the dog and cat shows ...

Advance voting continues across Kansas. Lyon County Election Officer Amie Jones says 100 people voted in advance at the County Courthouse on Wednesday, the highest daily total so far this election cycle. Nearly 800 people have now cast their ballots in person ahead of Tuesday's primary. Not all of the county's over 400...

A rollover crash hurt a Burlingame woman Wednesday. The wreck at West 125th and Auburn Road happened just before 3:15 pm, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. Troopers say an SUV driven by 56-year-old Elizabeth Mendelsohn crossed the center line. Mendelsohn overcorrected, eventually sending her vehicle off the road ...

The NCAA Division II Management Council has recommended that the Division II Executive Board adopt emergency legislation to establish an age-based eligibility model. The proposal would create a five-year eligibility period and would be effective immediately for the upcoming 2026-27 season. It would replace the longst...

Emporia State's Welch Stadium is getting new turf ahead of the 2026 football season. Installation is in progress now for a new state-of-the-art FieldTurf system. The project is anticipated to take two weeks so the field will be ready for the beginning of Hornet fall training camp which is set to begin on August 3. I...

Head Emporia State women's tennis coach CyCy Peyroche has announced she's stepping down as the head coach of the Lady Hornets. She was the first female to be named a head coach in the history of the ESU tennis programs when she took over as the interim coach of both the men's and women's teams for the 2023 spring seas...

Former Madison High School standout Casey Helm is returning to the Sunflower State and joining the Kansas State Track and Field team. Helm was a four time Class 1A Discus champion and broke the state record with a throw of 214 feet, 1 inch. That remains the top mark in the state. Following graduation, he attended Prin...

With international football's grandest event -- the World Cup -- into the quarterfinal stage and with American football games still over a month away, there is another brand of football that has a noted ESU alum doing very well. Tonight, the Argos travel to Winnipeg to take on the Blue Bombers. Game time is 7:30 pm. Ph...