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The Cold Weather Rule begins Thursday in Kansas. First enacted in 1983, the rule helps residential customers who have a past due balance on their utilities during the fall and winter months. Utilities...

A near-head-on crash in southern Greenwood County sent one person to a hospital early Tuesday. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the crash happened just after 3 am on US Highway 400 about seven miles eas...

Exhausted but exhilarated. That pretty well describes the nearly 60 people who were part of the USD 252 Southern Lyon County Honor Flight that returned home from our nation’s capital Tuesday nig...

Emporia High School recognized the outstanding academic achievement of several students Tuesday morning. In 2017 over 1.6 million students across the country took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Sc...

Representatives of close to 50 local businesses were on hand for Healthier Lyon County’s Pathways for a Healthy Kansas Business Forum on Tuesday. Healthier Lyon County grant manager Daphne Merte...

On Wednesday, a site visit team from the Higher Learning Commission will leave Emporia and head back to Chicago. The team has been at Emporia State University since Monday, looking at mission, institu...

Halloween is a time of fun for kids, but some work is needed to make sure the little ghosts and goblins are safe as they go out trick-or-treating. A lot of that has to do with the costumes themselves,...

One man escaped serious injury after his car hit a horse in northern Wabaunsee County early Tuesday morning. The horse was not so fortunate. Sheriff Rob Hoskins says the wreck happened at Kansas Highw...

The general election across Kansas next Tuesday isn’t the only election of note taking place next week. Members of the Lyon-Coffey and Radiant electric cooperatives will meet separately Monday t...

Have you ever heard of the “grandkid scam?” It’s not a scam to give you a relative you never had before. Instead, it’s when somebody calls you from out of the blue, saying that...