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Newman Regional Health hosted a surge capacity exercise Thursday, aimed at testing how the hospital would coordinate and respond to multiple high-level medical incidents. The surge capacity incident i...

Re-construction is complete for one Emporia street after a recent water main failure, and the process has resumed for another. West 12th has opened up just west of Lincoln after it was shut down Satur...

Drought conditions are worsening just northwest of Emporia. Exceptional drought, the worst level on the US Drought Monitor’s scale, now has expanded slightly south and covers the US Highway 56 c...

A Lyon County judge has sentenced one of several co-defendants convicted in an alleged kidnapping and beating incident from last November involving an Emporia teenager. At a Thursday hearing, Judge Je...

EUREKA — It has been a month since an EF-3 tornado sliced through parts of Eureka, damaging almost 170 homes and wounding eight people. Greenwood County’s Long-Term Recovery Committee is p...

Momentum is building for a major fundraising effort at Flint Hills Technical College. The WS and EC Jones Testamentary Trust is providing $100,000 on top of a $400,000 lead gift announced two months a...

Healthier Lyon County is looking to improve the local food system, and with that in mind the group is hosting a food policy panel discussion Thursday. Those attending will hear from several people fro...

Healthier Lyon County is gearing up for its fourth annual Park Crawl on Saturday. Grant manager Daphne Mertens explained the premise on KVOE’s Newsmaker 2 segment this week. Your browser does no...

WICHITA — Endorsement season hasn’t had a lot of surprises as the Kansas gubernatorial campaign gets closer to the Aug. 7 primary, but that changed Wednesday. Senate President Susan Wagle,...

READING — Scott Briggs has been doing his best to take a wait-and-see attitude for his corn and bean crops near Reading, but it’s now hard to miss the signs of drought. Your browser does n...