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Lyon County Public Health is urging residents to stay the course on COVID-19 mitigation strategies for at least a few more weeks. The reason, according to Emergency Preparedness Director Jennifer Mill...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has issued an air quality health advisory for the Flint Hills and central Kansas. KDHE says conditions are ideal for prescribed burning in the area. Tha...

Work continues at Flinthills Mall to get operations back to normal after a lengthy water line leak. Crews from Plumbing by Spellman have excavated a hole just east of the mall and just south of the fo...

Morris County is ending two COVID-19 mitigation strategies. Morris County commissioners have canceled the mass gathering order and the mandatory mask order, saying the recent passage of Senate Bill 40...

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s efforts to re-establish a statewide mask mandate have been shot down Thursday. As expected, the Democratic governor signed an executive order seeking to re-establis...

Ongoing roof repairs took another step forward for Newman Regional Health on Wednesday. The hospital’s Board of Trustees approved two projects, one involving an area above the boiler and mechani...

April arrives Thursday, which means the Flint Hills Smoke Management Plan also comes to the KVOE listening area. The plan allows for controlled pasture burns, ceremonial fires and grilling, but debris...

COVID-19 numbers are either flat or trickling upward in our area counties. Chase County announced no new or active community cases for the second straight week in its report Tuesday. However, one pers...

After having a study meeting Wednesday, Lyon County commissioners return to the County Courthouse for an action session Thursday. Commissioners have several items to discuss. They could approve LCAT&#...

Repair work continues, and likely will through the remainder of the week, at Flinthills Mall to repair a significant water leak. Mall manager Clarence Frye tells KVOE News the first round of repairs t...