Category Archives: News

Excitement is building for the fourth annual Halfway to Everywhere Music and Arts Festival this weekend. Perhaps nobody is more excited than lead organizer and Halfway Director Hank Osterhout. Osterho...

The extreme heat from last week did little to hinder operations for Emporia's Rescue Mission. That's according to Director Lee Alderman, a recent guest of KVOE's Morning Show, who says operations were...

As COVID-19 traffic is increasing nationwide, anecdotal evidence indicates a corresponding increase locally as well. Lyon County Public Health nurse Melissa Smith says it's extremely difficult to conf...

The Kansas Department of Commerce's Tourism Division has announced a series of grants, and an Emporia nonprofit is among the grant recipients. Kansas Free for Arts, now also known as H2E Inc., is gett...

Drought is deepening across much of Kansas, and the state's drought alert map bears that out. Most counties in the KVOE listening area -- Lyon, Chase, Coffey, Greenwood and Morris -- are now in a drou...

Osage City residents, specifically those in the city limits, are being told their homes will be part of a special survey on water lines inside their homes. Osage City has been directed by both the Env...

Emporia Main Street is asking people to help police officers find at least four men allegedly responsible for a recent spate of downtown vandalism. Main Street says members of the group damaged or des...

Following a special meeting of the USD 386 Madison/Virgil Board of Education Saturday morning, work is expected to begin next month to repair damage from severe storms that damaged Madison High School...

All six defendants in the Jesus Avila murder from 2017 have now either been sentenced or scheduled for sentencing. Jordy Cornejo-Campoverde entered no-contest pleas to single counts of aggravated robb...

The charter bus that crashed outside Emporia early Sunday morning involved members of the Ottawa University football team and coaching staff. The university says the bus was northbound on Interstate 3...