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Emporia State University President Allison Garrett updated Lyon County Commissioners on the happenings at ESU during the commission’s weekly action session Thursday morning. Along with boasting ...

Emporia Police have arrested a Kansas City, Kansas man with local ties in connection to the robbery of a downtown convenience store almost three months ago. Capt. Dave DeVries says 44-year-old Harold ...

The Kansas Free For Arts free monthly concert will feature a Kansas band at the Copper Top, along with a few new additives to the evening’s show. The vision of this organization is to create a c...

Following Wednesday’s city-county joint meeting the Emporia City Commission held their regularly scheduled action session. During the meeting commissioners unanimously approved modifications for...

Wednesday was a busy day for city and county officials. The day began with the second Emporia City and Lyon County Commission joint meeting inside the Little Theatre at White Auditorium. The main agen...

With several local rivers continuing to rise above the flood stage, some river-specific flood warnings have been extended. *Cottonwood at Emporia until Saturday morning. The river is currently above t...

It took a bit longer than originally thought, however, the Lyon County Sheriff’s department has announced that Kansas Highway 99 at Olpe’s Kansas Street has officially been reopened. The e...

Lyon County commissioners have an action session Thursday. Commissioners will hear from Emporia State University President Allison Garrett shortly before deciding whether to continue funding scholarsh...

There aren’t a lot of issues yet to resolve in the 2019 legislative session. That’s not to say there’s a lack of business to attend to as the veto session gets underway Wednesday. Tw...

Patrons of USD 253 had a chance to have their questions answered Tuesday as the Board of Education gets set to vote on a $78 million bond resolution next week. Two informational meetings took place at...