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Saturday’s clear fall weather helped invigorate the atmosphere at Holiday Resort’s Oktoberfest fundraising event. The event was created to help fundraise a project to create a walkway arou...

The 67th annual William Allen White Children’s Book Award Ceremony celebrated two authors at Emporia State University’s Webb Hall on Saturday. Happening every year since 1952, this award h...

A record $17,000 fundraising total highlighted the tenth annual Wade’s Ride Saturday morning. The annual event, held since 2010, is in honor of the memory of Wade Barrett who sadly passed away f...

The Sertoma Club of Emporia provided support for area college students while serving up a delicious breakfast Saturday. The club’s annual scholarship breakfast took place at the Emporia Senior C...

The 2019 Walk to End Alzheimer’s Disease will take place this weekend at the Lyon County Fairgrounds. Walk to End Alzheimer’s is a fundraising effort to help find a cure for this currently...

Emporia rescue workers took a Texas woman to Newman Regional Health for treatment after one of several crashes on the Kansas Turnpike near Matfield Green on Friday. The Kansas Turnpike Authority says ...

Trial dates have now been set for one man accused of harming a fellow inmate during an altercation in the Lyon County Jail earlier this year. Jury trial in the case of Marcel Wamser was set for Nov. 2...

A Coffey County man suffered possibly serious injuries after a crash along the Lyon-Coffey county line Friday afternoon. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 19-year-old Tristen Michael Metzger of Burlingto...

The annual Flint Hills Community Health Center drive-thru flu shot clinic exceeded expectations Friday. According to staff on hand, the hopes were to administer 200 vaccines to local residents as they...

Smoke from a pan triggered a run by Emporia firefighters to Presbyterian Manor on Friday. Fire crews were called out to Room 302 after a reported structure fire. Battalion Chief Tony Fuller says a pan...