There may be a new event space near Olpe if Lyon County commissioners approve a zoning change application Thursday. Commissioners will at least consider Danielle Cottman's request to change zoning at 1027 Road 70 to Agriculture Conditional-Use "Event Space." Cottman has been developing plans to turn a barn in...

Part of a Lyon County road near Neosho Rapids is closing on a short-term basis this week. The Lyon County Highway Department has closed Road Y between Roads 160-170, about three miles northeast of Neosho Rapids. A cross-road colvert is being replaced at the 170 and Y intersection. The current plan is to reopen the road...

Readiness, regardless of the setting, was an underlying theme for the National Weather Service's annual storm spotter training session in Emporia on Tuesday. Weather Service meteorologist Chad Omitt says preparedness should be a given during severe weather season. About 30 people attended the session, with about half o...

The three-day grace period for counting advance mail ballots ends after the current election cycle. The Kansas House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of Senate Bill 4, meaning advance mail ballots must be at election offices across the state by 7 pm on Election Day rather than the...

Emporia State University's School of Applied Health Sciences now has its first permanent leader. The university has announced the hire of Nicole Webb, who has been working in medical and/or educational settings since the mid-1990s. Currently the chair of AT Still University's Doctor of Nursing practice program in the C...

The #19/No. 5 seed Kansas State women's basketball team is in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2002 after defeating #13/No. 4 seed Kentucky 80-79 in the second round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington, Ky. on Sunday. UK led by five at the end of the first, but KSU took a t...

Legendary "Voice of the Jayhawks" Bob Davis has passed away at the age of 80. His family made the announcement on Friday afternoon. Davis was a native Kansan and was born in Iola growing up in Topeka and graduating from Topeka West and later Washburn University. His first broadcasting job was at KAYS in Ha...

The No. 5 seed Kansas State women's basketball team blasted No. 12 seed Fairfield 85-41 in the first round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament on Friday. The 'Cats jumped in front with a 21-9 first quarter and held a 12-point lead at the break. Using a 16-0 run in the third, the Wildcats blew the game open by o...

The Emporia State baseball team used a big fourth inning to beat Newman 10-7 to win game one of a three-game series at the Trusler Sports Complex in Emporia on Friday. The Jets jumped in front quickly with a three-run first inning, but the Hornets answered with three in the bottom of the second on RBI singles by Brady...

The season came to an end for Kansas men's basketball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament with a 79-72 loss to Arkansas in Providence, R. I. The teams sprinted out offensively in the first 20 minutes with the Razorbacks holding a slim 47-44 lead at the break. KU trailed by as many as 11 in the second half but w...