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If you took a Thanksgiving travel trip of any significant distance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says you should spend the next week at home. The CDC says travelers need to quarantin...

Lyon County’s Friendship Meals program is making adjustments due to coronavirus. Friendship Meals has suspended its operations, including meal deliveries, for both Monday and Tuesday due to coro...

A software issue may have been the cause of an unscheduled phone outage which led to 911 call centers being down in the southern part of Kansas for much of the afternoon Sunday. The outage affected nu...

Have questions about Lyon County’s coronavirus testing policy? You aren’t alone, even with the pandemic now eight months old. Two big questions for Lyon County Public Health since the pand...

Papa John’s in west Emporia is closed. The restaurant at 2808 West Highway 50 has put several handwritten religious and personal freedom signs on its storefront along with a closed sign, but the...

The time period right after Thanksgiving is typically busy for the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, but that’s not quite the case this year — at least for events. Chief of Interpretati...

A blustery day is ahead across the KVOE listening area. Chase County is in a wind advisory from 1-6 pm. Winds will be steadily out of the west at 20-30 mph, but gusts could be as high as 45 mph. A sim...

Emporia Fire handled a small grass fire Saturday afternoon. Firefighters were called to 629 Road 280, or about 10 miles north of Emporia, after a controlled burn got out of control. About an acre burn...

Despite some alterations due to the COVID-19 pandemic expectations were high for local retailers during Small Business Saturday. Trox Gallery and Gifts Owner Kaila Mock tells KVOE News she has been ex...

Osage City Police are looking for the person or people responsible for allegedly stealing commercial truck batteries. The Police Department says a pair of batteries were taken from the 500 block of No...