Category Archives: News
MID-MORNING UPDATE: K-99 fully reopens to traffic south of Emporia
After four-plus days of complete closure, it is finally all systems go for drivers on Kansas Highway 99 south of Emporia. The Kansas Department of Transportation opened the northbound lane of traffic ...
May 12, 2019
Two cited after injury crash near Olpe
Lyon County deputies say one person was hurt and two people cited after an injury crash near Olpe on Saturday. Deputy Chuck Moore says the wreck happened in the 1000 block of Road 70. The crash develo...
May 12, 2019
Construction business owner passes away
Emporia business owner Jeff Herrick has died. Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home says Herrick was 56 when he died at his home Friday. Herrick started Star Construction in 1995 and had operated the firm...
May 12, 2019
UPDATE: Power outage restored in Neosho Rapids
Neosho Rapids citizens dealt with a power outage for much of Mother’s Day. The outage developed shortly after noon and lasted for close to five hours before it was fixed. Westar Energy says a co...
May 12, 2019
Nearly 20,000 pounds of food collected during Stamp Out Hunger
Lyon County residents were definitely on board with the Postal Service Letter Carriers’ annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive over the weekend. Over 19,000 pounds of food was collected. Organizer J...
May 12, 2019
Take Me Back to Chicago provides rousing performances of superband's big hits
Founding Chicago member Danny Seraphine promised a night of hits when he brought his Take Me Back to Chicago experience to Emporia’s Granada Theatre on Saturday night. He did not disappoint. You...
May 12, 2019
EARLY UPDATE: Cottonwood River clear of K-99, but highway still closed
Rivers keep coming down across the KVOE listening area, but Kansas Highway 99 remains closed until further notice south of Emporia. The highway has been closed the past several days due to flooding an...
May 12, 2019
EVENING UPDATE: K-99 still closed, no word on potential reopen time as Cottonwood continues to drop
Rivers keep coming down across the KVOE listening area, but Kansas Highway 99 remains closed until further notice south of Emporia. The highway has been closed the past several days due to flooding an...
May 12, 2019
One person taken to hospital after crash near Olpe
Details are pending after an injury crash near Olpe on Saturday afternoon. Two vehicles collided in the 1000 block of Road 70, about a mile west of Olpe, around 2:15 pm. Emporia Fire took a female to ...
May 12, 2019
MIDDAY UPDATE: Deputies not actively searching for more people after water rescue near Emporia; small mudslide develops in northeast Lyon County
Local authorities rescued three people from a car that went into floodwaters early Saturday morning. Lyon County deputies were called out to the intersection of Road 160 and H around 4:30 am. Undershe...
May 11, 2019
