Category Archives: News
City Commission to consider ordinances, rezoning of property
The Emporia City Commission will meet for an action session Wednesday evening. The agenda includes a consideration of a bid award for the 2018 street resurfacing project. A pair of ordinances is also ...
Jun 18, 2018
Deadline for submitting Sunday liquor sales petitions coming Friday
Petitions are still circulating to keep Emporia’s Sunday liquor sales policy as is. In April, Emporia city commissioners approved a change to allow Sunday sales except on holidays at liquor stor...
Jun 18, 2018
Emporia city officials pleased as state resets road construction reimbursement rate
Recently, the state announced it was changing the reimbursement rate for road construction projects involving a cost share with city or county governments. The change back from 75 to 90 cents per doll...
Jun 18, 2018
KTA launches projects near Admire exit
A pair of improvement projects get underway this week on the Kansas Turnpike near of the Admire-Council Grove exit. Monday, paving work is affecting southbound travel between mile markers 150 and 155,...
Jun 18, 2018
Cottonwood Falls street approved for rehabilitation of historic bricks
Historic brick along a Cottonwood Falls street will get a makeover later this year thanks to a better than $700,000 bid approved late last week by the Kansas Department of Transportation. The project,...
Jun 18, 2018
Arrests made in Burlington burglaries
BURLINGTON — Burlington Police have announced arrests in a recent string of burglaries. Names are currently not being released, but Burlington PD says an adult and juvenile were arrested last we...
Jun 18, 2018
Stalled-out front to end current heat, provide several rain chances
A break in the heat is coming. Showers and thunderstorms are now in the forecast picture from early Tuesday all the way through the upcoming weekend. TV-13 meteorologist Doug Meyers says a stalled-out...
Jun 18, 2018
ESU SLIM department marks 40th anniversary of Whippoorwill boating tragedy
Forty years after the worst boating disaster in state history, Lake Pomona was quiet — and hot. The weather was in sharp contrast to the evening of June 17, 1978, when a tornado developed on the...
Jun 18, 2018
Heat advisory now in effect until Monday evening; one person hospitalized for heat exposure
The heat advisory in effect for most of the KVOE listening area since Thursday has been extended. The National Weather Service now has Lyon, Morris, Osage and Wabaunsee counties, along with north cent...
Jun 17, 2018
No hospital trips after car veers off K-99, flips onto its top
One person escaped serious injury during a traffic accident north of Emporia on Sunday. The single-car crash developed in the 2200 block of Kansas Highway 99, about four miles north of Emporia, around...
Jun 17, 2018
