Category Archives: News
Fireworks complaints on par with recent past years
Fireworks complaints remained on par with prior years, according to Lyon County Emergency Communications. The department reports 48 complaints from 12 am July 27 to 5:30 am Monday. Of those complaints...
Jul 7, 2026 KVOE News file photo.
RDA Board of Directors to receive update on Flint Hills Digital Campus during monthly meeting Friday
The Flint Hills Digital Campus proposal and local business retention will be the main focal points for members of the Regional Development Association of East Central Kansas Board of Directors when th...
Jul 6, 2026
Law enforcement seeking information to Olpe Fire station vandalism
Law Enforcement is seeking information after a reported vandalism incident in Olpe over the Fourth of July holiday. According to the Lyon County Sheriff's Office, Monday afternoon, an unknown individu...
Jul 6, 2026 Lyon County Sheriff's Office patch.
Routine business and recreation project update ahead for USD 253 Board of Education Wednesday evening
USD 253 Board of Education members will convene for their first meeting of the new fiscal year Wednesday evening. With the start of the new year will come several routine matters, including the appoin...
Jul 6, 2026 Photo by Tagan Trahoon/KVOE News
USD 252 Board of Education meeting Wednesday
Sports, budget and student handbooks are among the items of business ahead for USD 252 Southern Lyon County Board members Wednesday evening. Under the matter of old business, the board will discuss th...
Jul 6, 2026 USD 252 Southern Lyon County logo.
Bond election and land acquisition among lengthy agenda for USD 251 North Lyon County Board of Education Wednesday
The USD 251 Board of Education has a hefty agenda ahead for its first meeting of the new fiscal year Wednesday evening. Among the board's list of possible action items will be discussions on an upcomi...
Jul 6, 2026 USD 251 North Lyon County logo.
Interim RDA President emphasizes "extra push" from economic leaders as key to offset recent population declines
"People need to see there is a future here." That was the response from Interim Regional Development Association of East Central Kansas President Lyle Butler during an interview with KVOE News regardi...
Jul 6, 2026 Lyle Butler. Regional Development Association of East Central Kansas photo.
Gazette Collective owner targets late summer for opening
Months of work and years of planning should culminate soon for a repurposing project in downtown Emporia. Rick and Colleen Mitchell took over the former Emporia Gazette headquarters at 517 Merchant in...
Jul 5, 2026 Chuck Samples/KVOE News.
Big fireworks show culminates Emporia's America 250 weekend
You were promised a bang-up Fourth of July fireworks show in Emporia, and that's what you got. Nearly 30 minutes of crowd-pleasing explosions launched from the north end of the Emporia State Universit...
Jul 5, 2026 Chuck Samples/KVOE News.
Local, state officials getting ready for primary election cycle
As America celebrates its independence this weekend, it's also well into processes for applying one of the freedoms that's critical to our democracy: the right to vote. In Kansas, processes are rampin...
Jul 4, 2026 Courtesy graphic.
