Category Archives: News

Add local businesses to the entities subject to having their names used in financial scams. Floyd’s Auto is reporting that one woman received an automated call from the number 620-342-7718, whic...

One local church continues to make sure back to school time doesn’t break the bank for local families. For the second year in a row, Emporia First United Methodist Church has fitted all students...

Construction zones continue on the Kansas Turnpike to the northeast and southwest of Emporia. To the northeast, work continues to increase bridge heights at mile markers 148 and 151, or one and four m...

Lyon County Crime Stoppers is offering a reward as local authorities investigate a recent truck theft. Officers say they received a report of a vehicle theft in the 100 block of East on Sunday after t...

Former Emporia Senior Center Director Lannie Lyman returns to Lyon County District Court on Thursday afternoon. Lyman has an attorney review hearing set for 1:30 pm. This follows an earlier review hea...

The Emporia City Commission adopted its 2019 budget and also its five-year budget during Wednesday evening’s action meeting. The 2019 budget totals just over $57 million encompassing 14 funds wi...

A friendly competition is underway to see which local agency takes home bragging rights during the annual Battle of the Badges blood drive. The competition began Wednesday at Twelfth Avenue Baptist Ch...

An Emporia teenager who was among several charged in a November kidnapping and beating learned his fate Wednesday in Lyon County District Court. Alexander Couch, who pleaded to charges of attempted ro...

LCAT is changing its logo. Interim Department of Aging Director Mike Halleran says the now-familiar green imagery featuring a mountain lion is disappearing soon in favor of a black-and-blue color sche...

Classes are just a few days away at Emporia State University. Classes begin Monday, and before that the university will hold the traditional General Assembly on Thursday at the Memorial Union Webb Hal...