Emporia's annual Cinco de Mayo celebration will be taking over downtown this weekend. The annual event will be held Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm in the 800 and 900 blocks of Commercial Street and will once again include all of the events and activities that the community has come to expect with the celebration. This in...

Rain or shine -- and this year had more rain than shine -- there were still a lot of people at Saturday's Dynamic Discs Food Truck Fest and Glass Blown Open Player Party before the rain picked up in intensity as the evening wore on. Before the rain brought things to a halt, Tournament Director Jackie Morris says the ve...

With its annual Community Celebration now less than a month away, the United Way of the Flint Hills went into a new area of community engagement Saturday, holding its first-ever Video Game Tournament at Emporia State University's Esports Arena. Thirty players signed up to play games like NCAA Football, Mario Kart, Fort...

Construction has started on a new splash pad in Americus. Project Playscape has been generating funds and public support for the project for several years. Group spokesperson Britney Hinrichs says it's an exciting time in Americus, noting the foot traffic for the first day of construction Saturday. The splash pad is on...

A week delayed, major traffic flow changes are coming as Emporia's 24th and Prairie waterline replacement project nears the end. The city has confirmed plans to open up the intersection of 15th and Prairie starting Monday. Along with this comes the full closure of 12th and Prairie as crews connect the new 24-inch water...

The Emporia High track and field teams competed in the Leitel Legacy Invite hosted by Lawrence Free State on Friday. The Spartans finished ninth with 23 points. Chance Duncan won the discus with a throw of 162-9 and finished sixth in the javelin (162-6). RJ Tabares finished second in the 110m hurdles with a time of 14...

Emporia State scored nine-straight runs on the way to a 12-8 victory over Arkansas-Fort Smith in game one of their final home series of the year on Friday night. The Lions started hot with three-straight singles off ESU starter Cade Barton to lead 3-0, but the Hornets plated three in the bottom of the inning with T. J...

The Emporia State tennis team swept Arkansas-Fort Smith on Senior Day with a 4-0 win to go undefeated at the Kossover Family Tennis Center on Friday. ESU got two 6-1 wins to win the doubles point. ESU picked up three straight-set wins at #4 through #6 singles. The other matches from #1 through #3 singles were abando...

The Emporia High girls swim team finished fifth at Marion on Friday with 163 points. Brooke Monroe had the top finish, taking third in diving with a score of 179.80. The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Taryn Woydziak, Monroe, Camryn Spafford and Connelly Prouse finished fourth (4:46.58). The 200-yard freestyle relay t...

The Emporia High boys tennis team finished eighth in its home invitational on Friday. Emporia High's top finish came from Brecken Hines, who finished eighth, falling 8-4 to Topeka West's Will Hitch in the seventh place match. Tegan Mitchell finished 15th with an 8-5 victory over Aiden Entress of Ottawa. The doubles te...