Category Archives: News
Smishing scam effort targets Kansas Turnpike Authority
The Kansas Turnpike Authority is alerting customers to a new scam. The text-based, or smishing, scam uses the name of the new KTA toll payment system, DriveKS, and tells users they have outstanding ba...
Sep 17, 2024 Wave.video graphic.
Rago man charged with distributing psilocybin in Lyon County case
A preliminary hearing is coming next month in a Lyon County drug distribution case involving a southwest Kansas man. Nethanial Robinson, age 23 of Rago, had his first court appearance Tuesday. His pre...
Sep 17, 2024 Nethanial Robinson. Lyon County Jail photo.
Construction on Whittier Skate park now underway
After three years of discussions and development Emporia's new skate park is now under construction. Construction began Monday on the Whittier Skate Park according to an update from Emporia City Manag...
Sep 17, 2024
Clean audit report highlights monthly meeting for Emporia Recreation Commission Monday night
A busy week at the Lee Beran Recreation Center got underway Monday night. Emporia Recreation Commissioners convened for their regular monthly meeting where, among other topics, the ERC's annual audit ...
Sep 17, 2024 Lee Beran Recreation Center. KVOE News File Photo.
USD 253 Emporia Showcase Tuesday focuses on KTOY, Master Teacher and Horizon award nominees
The monthly Emporia Showcase with USD 253 Superintendent Dr. Allison Anderson Harder Tuesday featured the district's trio of nominees for state honors sharing their various journeys to and motivations...
Sep 17, 2024 Pictured left to right:
Kansas Horizon Award nominee Tyler O'Dell, USD 253 Superintendent Dr. Allison Anderson Harder, KTOY elementary education nominee Shelley Sparks, Master Teacher nominee Kelly Olson, KTOY secondary education nominee Andrew Hawley and Horizon Award nominee Daniel Juarez. Photo by Tagan Trahoon/KVOE News
Line repairs complete, road repairs expected to last into next week following 20-inch water line break in Emporia Monday
Repair work on a 20-inch water line that failed at the intersection of Prairie and 12th is complete. Road repairs, however, may not be wrapped up until next week. That was the report from Public Works...
Sep 17, 2024 Road repairs expected to last into the middle of next week per Emporia Public Works Director Dean Grant. Photo by Tagan Trahoon/KVOE News
Corner House merging with CrossWinds by New Year's Day
CrossWinds Counseling and Wellness continues its work as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic. That work now includes absorbing an established treatment facility in Emporia. CrossWinds has a...
Sep 16, 2024 Corner House logo.
Monday water main woes include 20-inch line break near 12th and Prairie
Emporia's Underground Utilities Department has been stretched thin Monday. Underground Utilities had to respond to four water main breaks in a two-hour stretch. The breaks unfolded shortly before and ...
Sep 16, 2024 Chuck Samples/KVOE News.
Appeal Tuesday in case of nursing student against Flint Hills Technical College, former nursing director
A Kansas Court of Appeals panel will hear a Lyon County civil lawsuit Tuesday. Chief Judge Karen Arnold-Burger, Judge Amy Fellows Cline and Judge Kathryn Gardner will hear the case of Molly Ellis vers...
Sep 16, 2024 Kansas Courts graphic.
FBI investigating 'attempted assassination' of former president Trump
The FBI is investigating what it called an "attempted assassination" of former President Donald Trump after Secret Service agents fired at a man with an AK-47 rifle on or near Trump's Palm Beach, Flor...
Sep 16, 2024 Donald Trump. White House photo.
