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Emergency crews transported one individual from the scene of two separate vehicle accidents Monday evening. Emporia and Lyon County EMS and Lyon County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to the 2800...

There will be no indoor soccer or youth volleyball as part of the Emporia Recreation Commission’s contingent of fall programming this year. ERC Marketing director Shalla Bennett announced via a ...

Work continues, and maybe wrapping up shortly, on Emporia’s downtown sanitary sewer project. The project has been ongoing for over the past year and has unfortunately seen some setbacks due to t...

Lyon County Public Health is reporting 28 new COVID-19 cases since Fridays update. The number of total cases has increased to 762. There are no recoveries reported in Mondays update. There are now 90 ...

Friendship Meals is looking for volunteers. Friendship Center spokesperson Vicki Vankooten says staffers will cook and prepare the meals for delivery drivers to take around town. Your browser does not...

GenEmporia is asking area residents to donate certain items benefiting SOS and its clients. Spokesperson Kathryn Martin says it makes sense to help SOS at a time when a lot of families are in crisis m...

The Kansas Water Office is drawing attention to its Reservoir Protection Initiative as a way to lengthen the lives of several lakes, including John Redmond Reservoir southeast of Emporia and Fall Rive...

Since the coronavirus pandemic began in March, a significant percentage of Americans have felt the death toll numbers have been artificially or deliberately inflated. A case in point was a poll from A...

Three people were taken to Newman Regional Health after a wreck involving two SUVs, one pulling a trailer, in Chase County on Sunday. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the SUVs, one driven by 37-year-old...

One of the leading federal health officials in the COVID-19 recovery effort made a stop in Kansas City on Saturday, focusing on the state response and — to a degree — the local situation. ...