Category Archives: News

State funding is confirmed for an Emporia hike-and-bike path project. The Kansas Department of Transportation has approved a $575,000 bid from Multicon, Inc, of Park City to lead the work on West 24th...

Several area businesses are benefiting from federal dollars to bolster energy efficiency and create clean energy. USDA Director for Kansas Rural Development Christy Davis announced numerous investment...

Evergy's work helping fellow utilities across Kansas, Missouri and other states has earned it a special recognition. Edison Electric Institute has named Evergy as an Emergency Response Award recipient...

Country Mart has reopened. The grocery store in downtown Emporia had been closed since Saturday after a roof support pole "flexed" near the checkstand entrance last week, the result of around 8 inches...

The Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce has announced its second award winner for the year. SOS Assistant Director Kathryn Wilkerson was honored as Volunteer of the Year during a surprise gathering at an...

The Founding City of Veterans Day will be welcoming a one-of-a-kind patriotic display to town later this year. The Wall That Heals is a mobile replica of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C. wh...

Typically, Emporia's snowplows don't go into the city's residential neighborhoods to clear snow. But they are for the rest of the week. The combination of up to half an inch of ice, 5-plus inches of s...

The inaugural leader of the SOS Child Advocacy Center Kathleen Inwood has passed away. Inwood passed away January 7 at the age of 78. Following 32 years in the classroom as a teacher at Village Elemen...

Emporia Main Street's inclusion in the K-State 105 Entrepreneurial Blueprint Initiative's first cohort of partners keeps the Fabrication Lab on its current trajectory while giving it the technology to...

A preliminary hearing for an Emporia man accused of killing two Emporia women in Colorado nearly 18 months ago is now coming later this year. Phillip Lieurance is set for a hearing March 3 in Kiowa Co...