Category Archives: Weather

Lyon County Emergency Management Director Jarrod Fell says the county's Highway Department spent about $140,000 in personnel, equipment and materials costs as a direct result of the Jan. 4-5 winter st...

Several weeks of winter weather are still ahead, but this is the time of year when the National Weather Service forecast offices begin announcing their severe weather training schedules. And the Wichi...

Following winter storm activity from early this month that is still impacting Emporians, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is asking the federal government for more time to submit an official disaster relie...

Another week, another static update on the US Drought Monitor for the KVOE listening area. There was virtually no change in the Drought Monitor map from Jan. 16 to Thursday -- and, in fact, there has ...

After saying Emporia's Public Works Department won't go back into residential areas to reduce the snowpack affecting side streets for nearly three weeks, the city now says it will treat streets as nee...

Air temperatures near -10 and wind chills approaching -25 aren't conducive to mechanical systems, but that's what area school districts had to contend with Tuesday morning. Emporia Public Schools had ...

The city of Emporia has released a statistics packet about its snow and ice removal efforts from Jan. 4-17. The city says it used almost 400 tons of salt at a cost of almost $41,000. It also had almos...

Emporia set an unofficial record early Tuesday. Air temperatures dipped to -8 shortly after sunrise Tuesday and were below zero starting around midnight. The -8 broke the prior unofficial record of -3...

Tuesday's light snowfall apparently contributed to an injury crash southwest of Emporia. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 18-year-old Sabrina Mitchell of Shawnee was northbound on the Kansas Turnpike wh...

The Osage County Sheriff's Office says an Overland Park man died in a boating accident this past weekend. Sheriff Chris Wells says 28-year-old Justin T Steinman was duck hunting when the accident happ...