Category Archives: News
Coding error leads to inadvertent warning message
Coffey County Emergency Management is advising area residents an earlier EAS and Public Alert and Warning System message on our airwaves was the result of an incorrect coding error. Just after 1:20 pm...
Jun 11, 2019
New task force to be main focus of Emporia School Board meeting Wednesday evening
Discussions regarding a new task force will take center stage during the Emporia School Board’s meeting Wednesday evening. At the board’s May 24 meeting the recommendation was made to form...
Jun 11, 2019
Kansas Department of Agriculture: Walmarts cooperating, residents need to throw out rhododendrons as investigation continues into sudden oak death
Walmart stores across Kansas are cooperating with guidance from the Kansas Department of Agriculture to remove certain plants after a link was recently confirmed between those plants and sudden oak de...
Jun 11, 2019
UPDATE: Daniel McClead taken into custody Tuesday afternoon
The Emporia Police Department has confirmed the search for an armed robbery suspect has come to an end. According to Sergeant Lisa Sage, officers located and took 22-year-old Daniel McClead into custo...
Jun 11, 2019
Emporia City Commission study session happening Wednesday
Updates and presentations regarding financial matters will highlight the Emporia City Commission’s study session Wednesday morning. During the meeting, commissioners will receive a financial upd...
Jun 11, 2019
Kansas Leadership Center statewide tour rolls through Emporia
The Kansas Leadership Center made a stop in Emporia Tuesday morning for their second annual state tour. The morning included breakfast and time to sit and talk with representatives and leaders of loca...
Jun 11, 2019
Lyon, area counties included in disaster request for 'major presidential declaration' after recent severe weather
After emergency federal aid was approved for Lyon and most surrounding counties in two separate waves recently, Governor Laura Kelly has now asked President Donald Trump for a major presidential decla...
Jun 11, 2019
Low-end severe weather risk possible Tuesday evening
Strong storms are unlikely but possible across the KVOE listening area after sunset. The Storm Prediction Center has issued a marginal risk, the lowest risk level for severe weather activity, for Lyon...
Jun 11, 2019
Civil servants become civil servers during annual Special Olympics Kansas fundraiser
The term civil servant took on a whole new meaning at Bobby D’s Merchant Street Barbecue Monday evening. Local law enforcement transformed into wait staff for the second Tip a Cop/Tip a Deputy e...
Jun 11, 2019
Changes coming for Waters True Value
Emporia’s Waters True Value store now has new ownership. Waters, Inc., has sold the Emporia store and its seven other locations in Kansas to Gerken Rent-All. According to Kimberly Smith of Water...
Jun 10, 2019
