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Honor Flight is underway for USD 252 Southern Lyon County — and, for the first time, USD 251 North Lyon County. Students, veterans, coordinators and medical staff left Olpe High School around 1:...

Preliminary activities are just about over for the 2019 general election. Advance voting has its final morning Monday, with courthouse voting hours from 8 am to noon. County Clerk Tammy Vopat says ove...

Flint Hills Care Center is officially under new ownership. Shawnee County Judge Mary Christopher has approved a plan for Recover-Care Emporia SNF Realty LLC to own Flint Hills Care Center and Recover-...

Emporia State University and USD 253 Emporia are among several area entities receiving grants from the Kansas Leadership Center. The so-called Transformation Grants are in-kind grants. They are valued...

Emporia Public Works will fix a leaky water main on West 12th this week. Director Dean Grant says crews will do the work Wednesday between Grand and Garfield. Grant says an old pipe has developed issu...

Local residents were living — and celebrating — life to the fullest Saturday night during the second annual Beacon For Hope Unmasking Suicide Masquerade Ball. Once again the Bowyer Communi...

The smell of pancakes filled the air at the Anderson building on Saturday with the Emporia Christian School’s 25th annual pancake feed. The pancake feed is an event the Emporia Christian School ...

Community members, veterans, and students gathered outside of Emporia State University’s Plumb Hall for the ESU Flag Celebration on Saturday. Emporia being the founding city of Veteran’s D...

Before Emporia State University President Allison Garrett has even officially moved into her new residence, local media were given a private tour of the new ESU Breidenthal University House Saturday m...

Near-freezing temperatures did not deter community members and elementary students from taking part in Logan Avenue Elementary School’s Running with the Lions 5K on Saturday, in fact, numbers ro...