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Planning a family gathering for Memorial Day? You should be in good shape for that — depending on the size of your gathering and the social distancing methods you take. Lyon County Pubilc Health...

Emporia’s burn ban is now over. The ban is being lifted as Kansas moves into Phase 2 of the COVID-19 recovery process. City Clerk Kerry Sull says all open burns in the city limits have to be app...

Feel Good Friday – Retire Happy Your browser does not support the audio element. Newsmaker: Lyon County Public Health Public Information Officer Vici Smith updates the local COVID-19 response ef...

Not surprisingly, coronavirus forced a spike in unemployment numbers from March to April across Kansas. The state jobless rate went from 2.8 percent in March to 11.2 percent in April. Labor Department...

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is looking into the death of a Lyon County inmate early Friday. Harold Gillen, 72, had been in the Lyon County Jail since March 27 and was awaiting a pretrial hearin...

Kansas lawmakers expected a long final day of the 2020 legislative session, but they may not have expected things would go almost 24 hours. Both the Kansas House and Senate passed measures to limit Go...

An unsettled weather pattern is now underway across the Flint Hills. Numerous rounds of showers and thunderstorms are possible to likely across the area through the upcoming Memorial Day weekend and s...

Scattered power outages developed across the KVOE listening area through the morning hours. Close to 100 Evergy customers in and around Thorndale are without power after two outages began shortly afte...