Category Archives: News

One Emporia teenager reported as missing recently has been found safe. Victoria Paige Renfrow, 13, was reported missing last Monday and has since come home, according to Emporia Police. There were con...

You can forgive Dynamic Discs owner and Glass Blown Open tournament organizer Jeremy Rusco if he just can’t keep smiling the next few days. Over 1,600 disc golfers and another 900 people from 47...

A large host of donors and sponsors attended Sacred Heart’s annual Bid ‘N Bite dinner and auction. Sacred Heart hosts this fundraising event every spring, and it entails a dinner courtesy ...

The first Child Passenger Safety Check Lane of the year took place on Saturday morning. Beginning at 9:00 am and lasting until 1:00 pm, this safety event checked the car seats of several children in m...

American Legion No. 5 held a potato bar fundraiser to help fund the Emporia’s Legion baseball team on Saturday. The fundraiser saw huge success with the room being completely full and a line tha...

The Emporia Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Agency helped area residents clean out medicine cabinets at Operation Prescription Drug Take-Back on Saturday. The event was located at the Flint...

Gusty northwest winds will be the key item in the Flint Hills weather picture Saturday. Chase County is in a wind advisory until 6 pm for expected winds as high as 45 mph. Other area counties are not ...

Not surprisingly, health care matters dominated a town hall meeting led by Kansas Congressman Roger Marshall at Newman Regional Health on Saturday. A small group quizzed Marshall on matters like hospi...

Visitor traffic is now back to normal at Newman Regional Health. The hospital has ended its annual visitor restrictions with influenza numbers dropping recently, both locally and across Kansas. Restri...

A week after fire damaged equipment inside Emporia’s Hostess production plant, the company says full production has resumed. The Hostess media relations department says donut production resumed ...