Laughter is often called the best medicine and there was plenty of it to go around at the fourth annual Crosswinds Counseling and Wellness Stand Up to Stigma event Friday night. Providing the laughter was comedian hypnotist Aaron Wayne, who told KVOE News he was "honored" to have been asked to perform for suc...

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has pardoned a man convicted in Lyon County over 25 years ago. Chung Pham was 21 when he was convicted in 1993 for aggravated battery, serving 32 months in prison followed by 24 months of post-release supervision. Kelly says she factored the nature of the offense, length of time, victim/surv...

Denim and Diamonds season is officially here. The annual slate of activities as part of Newman Regional Health's largest yearly fundraiser kicked off Friday with the third Denim and Diamonds golf tournament at the Emporia Golf Course. According to Newman Event and Donor Coordinator Jelinda Watts, who joined the Newman ...

The juvenile runaway who triggered a local BOLO alert Thursday afternoon is now facing escape and theft charges in connection with the incident. According to Emporia Police, 16-year-old Benjamin Bowman was apprehended in the 1100 block of East Street late Thursday afternoon after he had been identified as a runaway juv...

Sinkhole repairs continue in downtown Emporia. City Engineer Jim Ubert says a better-than-50-inch storm sewer line has been installed. Pavement should be placed by early next week, with another week of cure time needed after that. Cinco de Mayo is planned Saturday, and the celebration will be slightly compressed as far...

Even with some likely reflection of the Hopkins Manufacturing shutdown, the Kansas Department of Labor's March unemployment report shows Emporia and Lyon County jobless rates declining. Emporia's jobless rate was at 5.6 percent in February, dipping to 5.2 percent in March. Lyon County had a similar decline, from 5.4 to...

Asphalt work is underway on part of Americus Road The Lyon County Highway Department is working on Road F from Road 320 north to US Highway 56. It is a process that could take several weeks to finish. The Highway Department has stoplights and a pilot car directing traffic. Minor delays are expected between 7 am and 2:3...

The Emporia Recreation Center pool remains closed with no clear timeline for reopening after a mechanical issue surfaced earlier this week. According to officials, a failed gasket seal has kept the pool pump offline since Wednesday, preventing normal operations and forcing the temporary shutdown. Executive Director Ama...

An expansion of sorts is on order for the National Memorial to Fallen Educators. Following a successful 12 for 12 fundraising campaign earlier this spring, the National Teachers Hall of Fame has ordered two granite stones to be used to honor teachers, administrators and support staffers killed in the line of duty throu...

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks says a hunter was hit by a train and killed this past weekend. Wildlife and Parks says the incident was reported around 7:30 am April 25 south of the junction of 293rd Street and South Paulen Road, or about 3 miles northeast of Melvern. Nicholas Pasley, age 43 of Clarksville,...

Greenwood County is the only area county currently with any listing of drought from the US Drought Monitor, but the Kansas Water Office has all area counties in a drought watch. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed a proclamation this week updating the state's drought declarations. The drought watch adds Chase County to ...

Months of expansion and renovation have culminated for Toso Family Eye Care in downtown Emporia. The vision center celebrated with a public open house Thursday. Owner Dr Caitlin Toso: Toso Family Eye Care offers eyeglasses and contacts, as well as exams for children and adults, disease screenings and dry eye treatments...

There is a special meeting for the Flint Hills Technical College Board of Trustees on Friday. Board members will meet for possibly 20 minutes in executive session to discuss legal matters before adjourning. Action is not expected. The meeting is at 4 pm on Zoom.

The first of three candidates for Emporia State University's Dean of the Business College was stepping back into familiar surroundings as part of his official visit to campus Thursday. Former ESU professor and current Director of the Brown Innovation Center at Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida, Derek Yonai, t...

Emporia State University Theatre is bringing a classic to the stage this week with its production of "The Glass Menagerie," opening Thursday and running through Sunday. Evening performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. All shows will take place at ...