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It’s the end of an era for two of Emporia Public Schools’ longest-serving administrators. USD 253 hosted a retirement reception Tuesday at Mary Herbert Education Center for Assistant Super...

Robert Robison III will now wait several weeks to learn his sentence for an incident at the Lyon County Jail over four months ago. Following a plea agreement in March for a single count of battery on ...

A Lyon County judge has denied a motion to consolidate the cases against four defendants accused of burglarizing locations in rural Lyon County. Judge W. Lee Fowler made the ruling Tuesday after the a...

The Emporia School Board will have an extended meeting this week as they look ahead to some of the district’s goals moving forward. Wednesday’s meeting at Mary Herbert begins at 5:40 p.m. ...

Free Landfill Days wrapped up Sunday for Lyon and Chase County residents. In addition to the event being a week shorter, there were some major changes made to this year’s event such as residents...

Plumb Place Interim Director Clara Corn and board member Jesse Murphy discuss a major fundraising venture for the agency. Your browser does not support the audio element. Tech Talk with Flint Hills Te...

Plumb Place is using National Housing Week of Action to call attention to a major fundraiser now underway. The facility is looking to raise $30,000 to match a federal grant from Housing and Urban Deve...

BAZAAR — What started as a roping activity became a fatal accident in Chase County on Monday night. Sheriff Richard Dorneker says Clifford Cole of rural Cottonwood Falls died after the accident ...

TOPEKA — While Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer has signed an adjustment to a better than half-billion-dollar education funding plan, attorneys for schools say the state’s plan is still woefull...

TOPEKA — Kansas’ request to put a three-year “lifetime” cap on Medicaid benefits has been turned down. Officials with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have said c...