Election filings continue. Reading City Council incumbent Heather Jones has filed for re-election. She is the first candidate to file for that board. The 2025 election cycle involves positions like City Council, City Commission, mayor and school board. County Clerk and Election Officer Amie Jones will have more informa...

Kansas voters will have a say in whether the mechanism used to pick the state's Supreme Court justices will change. After the Kansas Senate approved Senate Concurrent Resolution 1611 earlier in the session, the House did likewise Wednesday. SCR 1611 is designed as a constitutional amendment to put justices on the ballo...

Reactions from local and area school boards, as well as state agencies like the Kansas State Department of Education and Kansas Association of School Boards, are pending as President Trump appears set to sign an executive order to dismantle the US Department of Education. This move comes at a time when the department h...

Wednesday was indeed a windy day, but thankfully concerns about power outages and other related concerns didn't fully manifest themselves. Wind gusts were above 50 mph before sunrise and between 40-50 mph at the Emporia Municipal Airport until late Wednesday night. Gusts elsewhere were higher, including a 63 mph gust 1...

Saturday evening will be busy in Emporia. Barricade Boys are coming to the Emporia Granada Theatre, bringing their Broadway Party to town as part of the Emporia Arts Council's Performing Arts Series. Barricade Boys are listed as the United Kingdom's most exciting theatrical vocal group. Tickets are $25 for adults and $...

The Hornets won their first conference series of the year over the weekend beating Rogers State two games to one at the Trusler Sports Complex. The Hornets fell 4-2 on Saturday to the Hillcats as Rogers State evened up the series at a game apiece scoring two unearned runs in the fifth. Dominic Felix cranked a late hom...

The #20 Emporia State men's tennis team picked up their fourth straight dual win with a 7-o shutout over NCAA DIII #37 Hobart College on Sunday at the USTA National Campus. ESU dropped the first doubles match before coming back with wins at #1 and #2 doubles to take the doubles point. ESU swept through the singles ma...

The Emporia State softball team wrapped up their Florida trip Sunday going 5-0 in The Spring Games over the weekend. The Lady Hornets scored all four runs in the bottom of the sixth in a 4-3 victory over Shepherd in their first game Saturday. Julianna De Luna and Haley Garnett each delivered two-run singles as ESU ca...

The Lyon County League announced its All-League Basketball Teams on Sunday morning. On the girls side, there were two unanimous selections on the first team with Lebo's Saige Hadley and Marais des Cygnes Valley's Akyra Traver. Madison's Jalynn Weakley, Olpe's Lilly Skalsky and Lebo's Siara Crouch round out the first te...

Olpe used a 19-7 fourth quarter to claim their third state championship in program history as they defeated South Central 47-34. The run was sparked by Senior Dexton Hoelting as he scored 15 points in the frame, going 10/10 from the foul line. Hoelting led all scorers with 24. Hoelting missed last year due to an injury...