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A potential budget amendment is in front of Lyon County commissioners as they gear up for their weekly action meeting tomorrow. A public hearing will take place at 10 am before commissioners decide wh...

The Salvation Army continues raising funds through its annual Red Kettle campaign. On KVOE’s Newsmaker segment Wednesday, Capt. Deb Thompson said the holiday fundraising drive focuses a lot of a...

Downtown Emporia will be hustling and bustling Thursday night. That’s because of several Emporia Main Street activities, including the holiday Midnight Madness event. Director Casey Woods says s...

Mention the phrase “sanitary sewer,” and you may not think of an important aspect of a city’s infrastructure. However, Emporia civic leaders have had the downtown sewer network in mi...

Oklahoma media outlets say a grandmother of a juvenile left at a Greenwood County rest area late last month was the woman arrested earlier this week on suspicion of child neglect in Oklahoma and child...

Two occupants of a semi were hurt and later taken to Emporia for treatment after a crash in northeast Lyon County on Tuesday night. The crash happened on US Highway 56 about a half-mile east of Miller...

A boil water advisory continues Wednesday for parts of Overbrook after two water lines broke earlier this week. The city says repairs in the 200 block of Elm and near the intersection of Sixth and Ced...

Emporia Public Works crews will close off one lane of Sixth Avenue in downtown Wednesday. Department director Frank Abart says this is a follow-up to work recently done on Sixth between Commercial and...

Discussions on changes to the proposed policy regarding alcohol sales at White Auditorium will be a major topic of discussion during the Emporia City Commission’s study session Wednesday. Commis...

A downtown Emporia home suffered extensive fire and smoke damage Tuesday, but firefighters say the situation could have been a lot worse. Fire crews from Emporia, Americus and Olpe were called to 409 ...