During her State of the State address back in January, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly called for lawmakers to pass limits on cell phone use in schools. Lawmakers have complied. Both the Kansas House and Senate of passed Senate Substitute for Substitute House Bill 2299, thus requiring school districts and "accredited ...

All facets of local Salvation Army operations are busy as we get into spring, and Capt. Mylie Hadden says one category is seeing more interest than normal recently. The food pantry has seen consistent traffic, and the Salvation Army is planning its annual partnership with the local Letter Carriers Association for the S...

Last year, scams began harassing the Kansas Department of Transportation and Kansas Turnpike Authority on a semi-regular basis. The overall scam effort has returned. Both KDOT and the Kansas Department of Revenue say there is a "smishing" campaign, where text messages direct people to phony links. In this cas...

The next step in the process of closing down the Americus Police Department will be a full inventory of the department's files and materials. That was the determination of the Americus City Council members during their most recent meeting Tuesday evening. Americus Mayor Dustin Wright. There is no official agreement bet...

Emporia Fire had a busy Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters put out a small leaf fire in the 800 block of Walnut shortly after 3 pm, following that incident with a response to a vehicle fire at 377 West US Highway 50 around 4:40 pm before a grass fire near Roads 160 and P around 5 pm. Details are pending with all three inc...

The Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association (KWCA) and the Shrine Bowl of Kansas have announced the high school senior wrestlers who have accepted their invitation to wrestle in the 3rd annual KWCA Kansas Shrine Duals. The KWCA Kansas Shrine Duals will be held on Saturday, March 28th, 2026, at Fugate Gymnasium on the camp...

On Monday, the final winter sports Emporia and Area Athletes of the Week were announced. Sophia Hill earned the Emporia Athlete of the Week honor. She was the top bowler for the Lady Spartans, who claimed second at the State Meet last Thursday. She finished ninth with a score of 584. Kaelyn Boss of Osage City is the ...

The Emporia State softball team celebrated an Opening Day sweep at the Trusler Sports Complex in Emporia on Sunday. ESU opened up their first home action of the year winning a 10-6 slugfest over Augustana. The Vikings scored five in the second to take the lead, but ESU answered with the next ten runs. ESU chipped awa...

The Emporia State athletics department was in action in multiple sports over the weekend. The Hornet baseball team couldn't follow up on a win in game one and fell two games to one to #3 Pittsburg State in their three-game series at the Trusler Sports Complex in Emporia over the weekend. The Hornet bats were quieted i...

KSHSAA has set the State Tournament assignments for the opening round in basketball. New this year, locations for the first games were set based off proximity of the matchups. Boys: Lebo punched their ticket to the 1AD2 tourney for a fourth straight year and will start against Victoria at White Auditorium in Emporia. T...