Category Archives: News

Spring semester classes are underway at Flint Hills Technical College. College President Dean Hollenbeck says he’s glad students are back, and he says college administrators are keeping a watchf...

Research is coming next as an appeal on child sex charges moves forward. Joe Louis Stewart was convicted in 2018 on two counts of aggravated indecent liberties against a girl who was allegedly nine ye...

Lyon County commissioners have an action meeting Thursday morning. Near the end of the meeting, commissioners will consider whether to extend the current public health orde. A version of a countywide ...

Sixteen years after she killed a Missouri woman and after a flurry of last-minute appeals and counterappeals, Lisa Montgomery was executed early Wednesday. Montgomery died by lethal injection shortly ...

Fire destroyed a barn and all its contents south of Emporia on Tuesday. The call to 1284 Road M came in shortly before 4:30 pm. Emporia Fire Battalion Chief Eron Steinlage says firefighters from sever...

The Kansas Department of Labor says a fraudulent benefits website is now up and running. For months, the department has touted www.GetKansasBenefits.gov as an information source on benefit matters. Th...

Southeast KansasWorks is into its first job fair of the year. The “New Year, New Career” job fair gives potential employees a chance to find a job in a more casual setting than the traditi...

Governor Laura Kelly outlined her plans for the year ahead during her State of the State address Tuesday night. Not surprisingly, she discussed the state’s overall response to coronavirus. Kelly...

A barn and all contents inside will be a total loss after fire developed Tuesday afternoon. Fire developed in a barn near Roads 130 and M around 4:30 pm, eventually engulfing the structure. Early indi...

Coffey County deputies are investigating after a vehicle fire Tuesday afternoon. The fire developed in a semi trailer on Interstate 35 just west of the BETO Junction exit. The trailer suffered heavy d...