Category Archives: News

A low-end severe weather risk is setting up for the north half of the KVOE listening area. Officially, a marginal risk of severe weather is in place for areas along and north of Interstate 35 and US H...

Fresh off setting budgets for next year, the topic of city-county operations dominated a recent Talk of Emporia on KVOE. Mayor Danny Giefer and County Commission Chair Rollie Martin had a wide-ranging...

Concerns about the Kansas Corporation Commission issuing injection well permits without the proper 30-day protest period haven’t abated. Lawrence attorney Robert Eye has filed a motion asking th...

The Granada Theatre Alliance will be starting a nationwide search for a new director next week after director Bryan Williams announced his resignation on social media Saturday. Board of Directors Pres...

Emporia/Lyon County EMS took one person to Newman Regional Health after a two-vehicle crash outside Santa Fe Park on Saturday. Two cars collided in the 700 block of West South shortly before 6:45 pm, ...

Two Emporians were hospitalized after a wreck north of town Saturday. Lyon County deputies, Kansas Highway Patrol troopers and Emporia/Lyon County EMS were called out to the 1900 block of Kansas Highw...

Railroad crossings at East and Peyton will be closed through the Labor Day weekend. Both were supposed to be opened Friday, but both remain barricaded Saturday. The city of Emporia had said both inter...

Lyon County deputies are looking for the person who destroyed some fencing at Highway Department headquarters — by driving through it. County Engineer Chip Woods on what happened: Your browser d...

Emporia State University has a new layer of security on campus. As in security cameras. Over the summer, the university installed 110 outdoor security cameras. Spokesperson Gwen Larson tells KVOE News...

Mechanical failure apparently led to a crash that shut down southbound traffic on the Kansas Turnpike near the Matfield Green service exit Saturday morning. The Kansas Turnpike Authority says 43-year-...