Category Archives: News

This year marks the five-year anniversary of Mobilizing Literacy and its impacts in the local area. Beginning in 2016, Mobilizing Literacy now works with 11 different school districts within Lyon, Cof...

Active cases diminished greatly according to the latest coronavirus data set released by Lyon County Public Health. Wednesday’s update noted 11 new cases bringing the overall total to 4,091 sinc...

When election season rolls around this year there will be at least one seat open on the Emporia City Commission. At the tail-end of the commission’s regular action session, Wednesday afternoon c...

Conditions were not extremely breezy Wednesday, however, the fire danger was high making the day a busy one for area firefighters. Crews tackled a large number of grass fires through the late morning ...

Emporia city officials have advised about an upcoming street closure to repair underground infrastructure. 18th just west of the roundabout at Graphic Arts will be closed between 8 am and 5 pm Thursda...

Part of Emporia’s West Ninth Avenue is now closed for much of March as a water main replacement project continues. City Clerk Kerry Sull says Ninth is closed from Elm to Arundel through at least...

Seniors 65 and older who have yet to get their name on the COVID-19 vaccination waiting list are being encouraged to do so before Friday. Public Health announced Wednesday they will officially stop ad...

Two Lyon County fire departments are helping to put down a grass fire that has developed in Osage County. Miller and Reading fire crews went to 253rd and Davis Road, about 25 miles northeast of Empori...

Coronavirus has led to the cancellation of a local service club fundraiser. The Emporia Lions Club is canceling its annual biscuits and gravy breakfast originally set for this upcoming Saturday. The c...

A teenager who went missing late last year from Melvern is now listed as missing from Wichita. Cherish Mayson went missing Feb. 23, according to Kansas Missing and Unsolved. She had been missing for a...