Author Archives: Chuck Samples

Prime burning conditions were in place on Easter Sunday and they continue Monday. Temperatures in the low 70s will combine with light breezes, first out of the west before shifting to the east, to set...

Holidays apparently don't mean anything to certain scammers. Residents began complaining to area law enforcement about alleged "final notices - court enforcement action" texts allegedly saying residen...

Hundreds of kids wasted no time diving into Easter egg hunts on Saturday, despite cool and breezy conditions. The Optimists' event saw around 13,000 pieces of candy snapped up in short order, thanks t...

As usual, a lot of area residents flocked to Allen on Saturday to enjoy the North Lyon County Youth Association's annual fundraising fish fry and silent auction. Turnout was strong from start to finis...

Cottonwood Falls' City Council has a special meeting Monday evening. Board members are set to discuss an alignment effort between Cottonwood Falls, Strong City and Chase County related to several pet-...

As planned work comes to an end for Emporia's Southeast Transmission waterline project, previously-unplanned work is still ahead in downtown Emporia. It has been a week since a sinkhole developed near...

The war involving the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other is now five weeks old. President Donald Trump has said the war could end within the next month, and he has adjusted the...

The blue-green algae alert season is underway, and Emporia State's King Lake is on the first list as announced Friday by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. King Lake is one of three wate...

There has been another jump in jobless numbers for Emporia and Lyon County. Emporia's jobless rate for January is reported at 5.6 percent, up from December's 4.3 percent, according to the Kansas Depar...

March tax collections missed estimates and last year's actual numbers in the latest report from the Kansas Department of Revenue. Overall tax collections were $577 million, below estimates by almost 1...