Category Archives: News
Information is key: Parents of all backgrounds attend annual Lyon County Community Baby Shower Thursday
As it has since its inception, the annual Lyon County Community Baby Shower once again provided a plethora of important information to parents of all backgrounds and situations Thursday afternoon. One...
11h ago Photo by Tagan Trahoon/KVOE News.
Lyon County Commission approves conditional use permit for new cell tower, minor plat and more as part of hefty action agenda Thursday
Conditional use permits, minor plats, traffic plans and more all gained approval from Lyon County Commissioners as part of their regular action meeting Thursday morning. Lyon County Zoning and Floodpl...
12h ago Chuck Samples/KVOE News.
Rocky Ford Bridge work continues ahead of schedule
At least for now, work may end earlier than scheduled for the new Rocky Ford bridge -- at least, according to Lyon County Engineer Wayne Scritchfield. The current bridge was added to the Kansas Regist...
13h ago Chuck Samples/KVOE News.
Prairie Paws Animal Shelter and Street Cats Club Partnering for Same Goal
Two Emporia animal welfare groups are joining forces to expand services for pets and community cats across the area. Bailey Estes with Prairie Paws Animal Shelter and Victoria Partridge of Street Cats...
17h ago Representatives of Prairie Paws Animal Shelter prepare to cut the ribbon on its new mobile spay-neuter trailer. Athena Samples.
David Traylor Zoo collaborating with Brazil based marmoset conservation program to expand conservation information and research to global database
The David Traylor Zoo has a new partnership aimed at increasing global conservation efforts with a "fairly local" partner just to our south, according to Zoo Director Brenda Young. Marmosets are New W...
17h ago David Traylor Zoo Logo.
Jones pleads no contest to theft in Mel's Tire embezzlement case
The woman who allegedly stole money from Mel's Tire has pleaded no contest in her case. Randee Lee Jones officially accepted a plea agreement involving felony theft of up to $100,000. A count of ident...
18h ago Randee Jones. Lyon County Jail photo.
Main Street's April 1 clone prank points up AI conversations, Fab Lab work, benefits of FORGE partnership with ESU
April 1 is a pranker's paradise, and Emporia Main Street -- not known for its pranking abilities -- had one that generated a lot of interest Wednesday, even if at least some of it was tongue-in-cheek....
18h ago Emporia Main Street graphic.
Two people to Newman Regional Health after US-50 crash west of Emporia early Thursday
Lyon County deputies now say two people were taken to Newman Regional Health after a wreck in western Lyon County early Thursday. Deputy Fernando Zuniga says the crash was officially in the 300 block ...
23h ago One person was hospitalized after a wreck on US Highway west of Emporia on Thursday. Chuck Samples/KVOE News.
US-56 CRASH: Two crash scenes, 12 total vehicles, 5 to hospitals after smoke-related wreck outside Admire
Five people were sent to hospitals following an extensive crash zone that developed outside Admire on Wednesday. Lyon County deputies, Kansas Highway Patrol troopers, Emporia Fire/EMS, Allen-Admire Fi...
Apr 01, 2026 Two crashed cars, at least one of which caught fire, lie in a burn zone from a grass fire just south of US Highway 56 outside Admire on Wednesday. Chuck Samples/KVOE News.
Former Graves Drugs property at 609 Commercial back on the market following announcement that Imaginarium will be altering plans to move into the space
Emporia's Imaginarium will not be moving into the former Graves Drugs space as was originally planned. Ownership sent out a news release Wednesday afternoon announcing plans to sell the property at 60...
Apr 01, 2026 KVOE News photo.
