Category Archives: News

The deadline to apply for the Emporia Convention and Visitors Bureau’s annual support grants is just a little less than a month away. CVB Director Susan Rathke was a recent guest on KVOE’s...

Moonlight will be guiding riders through the Flint Hills later this month for the Lunar Kanza. Preparations are underway now for the annual event which will see hundreds of cyclists and runners come o...

The Kansas Supreme Court announced Friday the appointment of five new members to the Access to Justice Committee including one from Lyon County. Ruth Wheeler, who serves as the district court administ...

This week’s meeting of the USD 251 North Lyon County School Board will be the first one under new interim superintendent Mike Mathes who succeeds Aron Dody in that capacity. Mathes, who recently...

Newman Regional Health has a new Cardiology Medical Director. CEO Bob Wright announced in late June that Dr. Dominic “Mick” Hurley, an interventional cardiologist at the hospital since Jul...

Gov. Jeff Colyer has announced a drought emergency for nearly half the state’s counties, including every county in the KVOE listening area. Fifty counties, including Lyon and all surrounding cou...

A new crosswalk has been installed near Maynard Early Childhood Education Center where Constitution crosses South Ave. The project was funded through a $5,000 Governor’s Council on Fitness grant...

The Kansas Supreme Court has denied the appeal of a Lyon County man convicted in a 2014 sale of methamphetamine to another man. Seth Torres was convicted in Lyon County District Court of distribution ...

Overbrook Police say they are looking for the person or people responsible for burglarizing the city’s swimming pool Thursday night or early Friday morning. Chief Terry Hollingsworth says the po...

Emporia Fire crews handled a small fire Friday for their law enforcement counterparts inside White Auditorium. Fire Capt. Ryan Conley says the department was notified of a possible fire affecting a Po...