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The Prairie Street overpass is currently open, but traffic will be restricted for much of the day. Cleaning is underway on the bridge, meaning one-lane traffic until 3 pm based on the current schedule...

The USD 253 Emporia Board of Education has a significant special meeting Wednesday evening. Board members will have a work session on the district’s reopening plan, including work on mitigation ...

A new inspector is getting settled in at Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Station. Christopher Henderson has been selected as Wolf Creek’s new senior resident inspector. Henderson joined the NRC in 2010...

This week, the Kansas Department of Transportation will start surveying a bridge that’s up for replacement. Survey work begins Thursday on the Interstate 35 bridge over Lincoln Street. Crews wil...

Lyon County Public Health continues to be concerned about recent coronavirus trends, even though there haven’t been massive increases in the number of overall or active cases. Emergency Prepared...

Emporia Main Street has canceled The Taste. Main Street originally postponed the event in March, pushing the event to September. Director Casey Woods says Main Street has spent the past few months res...

Lyon County’s active COVID-19 caseload has risen slightly yet again. In its daily update Tuesday, Lyon County Public Health reported six new cases of COVID-19 bringing the total number of confir...

Traffic was disrupted for close to an hour following a non-injury accident in far west Emporia Tuesday afternoon. According to Emporia Police Officer Jaffar Agha, a westbound RV with two passengers in...

The next phase of work for the 2020 Emporia Street Rehab project is now underway. Mill and overlay work began Monday on five street segments in the area. This includes the Dietrich Addition, Park Lane...

The Emporia City Commission has back-to-back meetings on the calendar Wednesday morning. Commissioners will begin the day with a study session during which time discussions will range from the purchas...