Category Archives: News

The Emporia Public Library has some exciting new materials coming available for patrons to check out. On a recent Talk of Emporia, Director Robin Newell highlighted one of their wearable word counting...

Participation in this year’s Emporia Walk to Defeat ALS was another success, with close to 250 people descending on Jones Park to honor of loved ones afflicted by the disease. Fundraising also w...

The playing career of Emporia State defensive back Marquise Johnson has likely come to an end. Johnson, 21, from Independence, was shot while in a car in downtown Emporia on Aug. 16 and taken by priva...

The two candidates vying for the First Congressional District seat in Kansas are making stops in Emporia this week. Alan LaPolice, the Democratic nominee will speak at a special meeting of the Lyon Co...

Another opportunity for the public to hear more about a potential Convention of States bill is coming Monday. The meeting is being planned by local Convention of States volunteers in the Emporia area....

The Lyon County Highway Department is advising of an upcoming county road closure beginning this week. A timber culvert will be replaced less than half a mile east of Road U on Road 220 in eastern Lyo...

The Sertoma Club is inviting you to Soden’s Grove on Saturday. The reason? A big birthday party. The Sertoma Club’s miniature train celebrates its 60th year of operation, and a trainload o...

STRONG CITY — Strong City Park will be full of children Saturday afternoon and early evening as the town holds its annual Park-A-Palooza. Organizer Barb Davis says a lot is planned. Your browser...

Melvern residents can now drink their water without taking precautionary measures. The town was the last purchasing system to be cleared from a boil water advisory impacting Public Wholesale Water Sup...

LEBO — Southbound traffic on Interstate 35 near Lebo was closed for a time after a reported injury crash Friday morning. Coffey County deputies have not given further details yet on this inciden...