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The Emporia High volleyball team will be playing in the Andover Central hosted Sub-state Saturday. They will face 8th ranked Andover in the semi-finals. Senior Abbie Demler says they need to play as a...

The Madison Bulldogs clinched a district championship Friday night with a 62-0 over Central Burden. Four touchdowns on four possessions gave the Bulldogs a 30-0 lead at the end of the first quarter. M...

Electrical issues caused a fire that damaged three apartment units in central Emporia on Friday. Emporia Fire Battalion Chief Eron Steinlage says the fire at 901 Constitution started in a second-floor...

Lyon County had a double-digit day for new COVID-19 cases, and although the active case number declined, the number of active clusters increased. Lyon County Public Health says the county had 11 new c...

Two area counties saw increases in their coronavirus activity as announced Friday. *Coffey County added six new cases since Monday. It now has 154 total cases, 13 active cases and nine deaths.*Greenwo...

Even with rainfall this week, the KVOE listening area is still dry. Evidence of that can be seen in the latest report from the US Drought Monitor. Most of the area is still abnormally dry, but better ...

Improvements continue on Americus Road between Emporia and Americus. An overlay project began several weeks ago. Assistant County Engineer Jim Brull says this is a standard road maintenance project &#...

Now that the presidential debates are over, did anybody change their minds afterward? And did the candidates — President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden — do what they nee...

It’s safe to say advance voting has been a hot topic in Lyon County. Already, better than 17 percent of the county’s registered voters have cast their ballots, with close to 2,000 voting i...