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Emporia Police are investigating after an unusual crash early Friday. The wreck at South and Market was reported shortly before 5 am. Details are pending, but a car on Market and a pickup on South col...

Part of West Sixth Avenue constricted after a water main break a month ago is now back to normal speed and normal configuration. A 12-inch line failed in the middle of West Sixth at the Elm Street jun...

A new rock quarry network is coming to southeast Lyon County. Lyon County commissioners approved a conditional use permit that would encompass 200 total acres of agricultural land in the 600 block of ...

For years, the National Weather Service has coordinated the statewide tornado drill on Tuesday of Severe Weather Awareness Week. And for years, Lyon County has not participated. Neither trend ends thi...

Evergy’s solar customers are going back to a rate structure with which they could be familiar. The Kansas Corporation Commission says it approved the current three-part rate design for what are ...

No issues developed after a pair of protests in Americus on Thursday — one decrying a North Lyon County Junior High student saying she was a lesbian on a bus ride home last month, one to shield ...

Traffic can finally move on Kansas Highway 99 north of Emporia after a nearly 24-hour closure. A bridge near Road 240 was hit by an over-height semi carrying excavation equipment around 5:15 pm Wednes...

COVID-19 response and insurance options were two of the big discussion points at the Newman Regional Health Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday. On coronavirus, Chief Executive Officer Bob Wright says...

A Harveyville man escaped injury as part of a chain-reaction crash that killed a Manhattan woman in Topeka on Wednesday. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the wreck involved seven vehicles and developed ...

Lyon County Treasurer Sharon Gaede has announced the latest vehicle tag deadline. Friday is the last day to renew tags for people with last names beginning with the letter “A.” It’s ...