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Emporia Fire: Seven hospitalized after Turnpike wrecks near Emporia
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Feb 17, 2025

WARMING SHELTER LOCATIONS
Feb 17, 2025

Chase County, Lyndon school districts appear near end of respective superintendent searches
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Dangerous cold to continue into Thursday after light snow Wednesday
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Latest News

Lawmakers override governor's veto of Help Not Harm
As expected, Kansas lawmakers have overridden Governor Laura Kelly's veto of what's called the Help Not Harm Act. Votes were 31-9 in the Kansas Senate and 85-34 in the House. Supporters, including 17th District Senator Mike Argabright of Olpe, 13th District Representative Duane Droge of Eureka and 76th District Represe...
1h ago

USD 253 announces superintendent survey, focus group information
Emporia Public Schools is going full-speed into its search for a new superintendent. USD 253 has announced two opportunities for the public to get involved, both of which are currently underway: *The Kansas Association of School Boards, along with the district, has an online survey available through Feb. 24. The survey...
19h ago

Fire station bonds before Emporia City Commission
Emporia city commissioners are planning to meet Wednesday. In their action session, commissioners plan to declare their intent to enter into both a base lease and project lease between the city and the city's Public Building Commission on financing the new downtown Fire Department headquarters, currently under construc...
20h ago

One person hurt after fire in Reading
One person was taken to Newman Regional Health with apparently minor burns after a fire in Reading early Tuesday. Fire crews from Reading, Hartford-Neosho Rapids and Miller, along with an ambulance crew from Emporia, began responding to 5 Vine in northwest Reading shortly after 6 am. Scott Wilkerson of Reading Fire say...
Feb 18, 2025

Kansas Gas offers tips and tricks to keep house warm and utility costs low through brutal cold spell; Evergy crews ready to respond in the event of outages amid dangerously low temperatures
Local utilities and residents are bracing for the impacts that brutally cold air will likely have on their homes and utility equipment in the coming days. Overnight temperatures Tuesday are expected to dip below zero with wind chills forecasted to be between -7 and -17 heading into Wednesday. Conditions won't improve m...
Feb 18, 2025

Chase County girls, Madison boys pick up wins in final regular season Area Game of the Week
Feb 18, 2025

Emporia High boys bowling 1st in home quad, girls take second
Feb 18, 2025

Emporia High swept by Washburn Rural
Feb 18, 2025

Hornet Track in Topeka Over Weekend
Feb 17, 2025

Hornet Tennis Takes Two at Drury
Feb 17, 2025

Chase County girls, Madison boys pick up wins in final regular season Area Game of the Week
Feb 18, 2025
Latest Sports

Hornets Fall Twice in Nebraska
The Emporia State basketball teams were swept by Nebraska-Kearney at the Health & Sports Center in Kearney, Neb. on Saturday. In the women's game, Katie Horyna missed a game-winning 3-pointer with less than 5 seconds to go and the rebound slipped out of the hands of Janiya Alvarez and the Lady Hornets fell 73-71. ...
Feb 16, 2025

Emporia High girls wrestling qualifies 10 for state, 4th at regionals
Ten Emporia High Lady Spartan wrestlers clinched tickets to the Class 5A State Wrestling Championships later this month on Saturday in Topeka. Emporia High finished fourth in the 5A West Regional hosted by Seaman, finishing with 158.5 points. The Lady Spartans finished behind regional champion Kapaun Mt. Carmel, region...
Feb 16, 2025

Osage City girls, Olpe boys victorious in Area Game of the Week
In the girls contest, Osage City led 18-9 behind a 14-0 run in the first quarter. It was a lead Osage City would not relinquish as they cruised to a 54-22 victory over Olpe. Osage City head coach Kate Boss said it was the defensive that got it done for her team tonight. Olpe is now 17-1, and was led in scoring by Breck...
Feb 15, 2025

Emporia High swept by Hayden in road doubleheader
The Emporia High basketball teams were swept by Hayden Friday night in Topeka. The Spartans saw an 8-game winning streak snapped against the Wildcats in a 51-37 loss, seeing the Spartans drop back-to-back games for the first time this season. Hayden controlled the girls game as the No. 1 team in 4A swept the season ser...
Feb 15, 2025

Emporia High boys swim and dive fifth at Centennial League meet
The Emporia High boys swim and dive team finished fifth at the Centennial League meet on Thursday in Topeka. Logan Woydziak finished third in the 50-yard freestyle (23.24) as well as the 100-yard freestyle (53.33). The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Luke Marshall, Brayden Shaw, Beckett Schultz and Woydziak finished t...
Feb 14, 2025
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Temperatures were between -5 and -8, with wind chills between -10 and -18 when KVOE News recorded this video.
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