Category Archives: News

Court processes are underway against two people in Greenwood County after an alleged chase late last month. Greenwood County Sheriff Heath Samuels says the incident began unfolding shortly before 11:3...

By May, Lyon County government may well have a brand-new website for county residents. On KVOE's Morning Show recently, Lyon County Public Relations Manager Vici Smith said work is moving towards the ...

For the first time in about three weeks, water conservation measures are not needed for large areas of Lyon and Coffey counties. The city of Burlington says the mandated conservation measures in place...

Sentencing is coming next month for a man involved in an Emporia standoff last summer. Dwayne Lamont Ford, age 55, recently pleaded no contest to one count of aggravated assault against law enforcemen...

Several noteworthy items are coming for the USD 253 Emporia Board of Education on Wednesday. Board members have an executive session for attorney consultation near the start of the meeting and before ...

Last week's announcement of Newman Regional Health's involvement in a real-time notification alert system reflected seven months of testing -- and almost two months of work in a live setting. Hospital...

Work is moving as fast as possible to get a bridge replaced near Neosho Rapids, but it may be next year before the bridge over Dry Creek is finished -- and it may be months, if not next year, before t...

A preliminary report related to a helicopter crash that killed an Emporia native and two other flight crew members last month indicates bird activity at the site of the crash, including one bird in th...

A report of a possible gas leak in central Emporia turned out to have a different cause altogether. Emporia firefighters were first dispatched to 28 South Commercial shortly before 1 pm, later going t...

If you have seen a plethora of potholes in Emporia recently, you aren't alone. Emporia Public Works Director Dean Grant says the combination of a rather notable freeze-thaw-freeze cycle, combined with...