Category Archives: News
Flint Hills Rodeo celebrating 82nd year
The 82nd annual Flint Hills Rodeo launches Thursday night. Activities abound for the three-night event, which culminates Saturday in Strong City. On KVOE’s Talk of Emporia on Wednesday, barrelma...
May 30, 2019
Dirty Kanza weekend has officially begun
We are just about into the month of June, which means it is almost time once again for the Dirty Kanza Gravel Bicycle Challenge. Festivities for the annual event, which is bringing 3,000 riders to Emp...
May 30, 2019
Vehicle tag registration deadline is Friday for some Lyon County residents
The latest vehicle tag deadline is Friday for some Lyon County residents. Residents with last names ending in the letters E, F or G need to stop by the Motor Vehicle Office inside the Lyon County Cour...
May 30, 2019
State Street underpass for street overlay; East 12th reopens near ESU
The State Street underpass is closed Thursday. The city of Emporia says a contractor started the milling and overlay process on State between Second and Fourth around 8:30 am. There is a chance the wo...
May 30, 2019
Koci seeking first full term on Emporia School Board
Another incumbent has filed for re-election to the Emporia School Board. Mallory Koci filed with the Lyon County Election Office Wednesday. Koci came on to the board last year to fill the vacancy left...
May 30, 2019
Insurance policies and budget requests highlight Lyon County Commission meeting Thursday
Additional budget requests came before Lyon County Commissioners during their weekly action session Thursday morning. The first request came from Trudy Hutchinson of Hetlinger Developmental Services f...
May 30, 2019
Greenwood County gravel road network punished by recent flooding
Flood damage is becoming more evident in Greenwood County with the third round of flooding this month finally subsiding. Emergency Management Director Levi Vinson says several bridges have been washed...
May 30, 2019
Cottonwood River no longer flooding at Emporia, but floodwaters continue downstream
Flooding continues across parts of the KVOE listening area, but the good news is the floodwaters are subsiding. Flooding has officially ended on the Cottonwood at Emporia. The river went below the 20-...
May 30, 2019
Federal disaster declaration covers some area counties with Lyon County flooding to end by upcoming weekend
President Donald Trump has signed a disaster declaration for Kansas flooding. However, not all the counties currently in the state disaster declaration are included in the federal document. President ...
May 30, 2019
Lawrence-Linwood tornado listed as EF-4; Osage County twister now unconfirmed
Preliminary damage assessments have been completed after significant tornadic activity in northeast Kansas on Tuesday night. The National Weather Service confirmed a mile-wide, long-track beast that h...
May 30, 2019
