A Wellsville man was hospitalized following an injury accident on Interstate 35 late Monday morning. According to Lyon County Deputy Riley Jones, emergency crews were called to I-35 mile marker 134 southbound for a single vehicle injury accident just before 11:40 am. Jones says a 2019 Chevrolet Blazer, driven by 77-yea...

Because a number of conversations are ongoing, a location can't be announced yet, but west Emporia could well land a national sub shop later this year. Jersey Mike's has started filling out its staff with a stated goal of opening to the public by this upcoming fall. Jersey Mike's has around 3,300 restaurants across the...

An Emporia man arrested last week on suspicion of attempted murder has been charged on significant but lesser counts. Seth Giroux, age 26, was charged with single counts of aggravated battery, attempted aggravated battery - bodily harm with the use of a deadly weapon, traffic counts and two counts of criminal damage. G...

Formal charges are pending after separate arrests in Greenwood County over the past week. Greenwood County deputies served a search warrant at an unspecified location in Madison on Thursday, arresting Sam Berner on suspicion of two counts of sexual exploitation of a child, four counts of felony breach of privacy and si...

An Alma man was killed after a crash in Wabaunsee County this past weekend. The Kansas Highway Patrol says an SUV driven by 59-year-old Danny Miller was westbound on Pavilion Road at some point in time between 11 pm Saturday and 9 am Saturday. The investigation indicates the SUV left the road and went airborne for near...

With political candidates at the state and federal levels starting to make more and more stops in Emporia, Lyon County Clerk and Election Officer Amie Jones is encouraging candidates to apply and residents to register for the upcoming election cycle. The candidate filing deadline isn't until noon June 1. Jones says it'...

Kansas 110th District Representative Ken Rahjes is going across Kansas highlighting his run for Kansas Secretary of State, and he stopped in Emporia on Friday. The most public part of the Secretary of State's job deals with elections. Rahjes says residents want to make sure their votes are counted and those votes are s...

Part of Emporia's South Avenue will see a better-than-month-long closure as part of the ongoing Southeast Transmission waterline project. South closes to westbound traffic Monday from East to Peyton and remains closed for up to five weeks. Part of the closure involves waterline construction, with another part including...

Bridge work begins near Melvern this week. The Kansas Department of Transportation says it plans to start Wednesday on a bridge deck replacement involving US Highway 75 over the Marais des Cygnes River, about three miles west of Melvern and just north of the Kansas Highway 31 junction KDOT plans to restrict traffic to ...

Area residents had to contend with a windy, increasingly wintry day Sunday. Temperatures fell from the mid-60s around 2 am Sunday to the teens by 2 am Monday. Gusts, meanwhile were between 40 to over 60 mph from around 8 am to around midnight, driving overnight wind chills down to -8 in Emporia: *Emporia; 59 mph *5 mil...

An investigation is underway after a fire damaged a garage in southeast Emporia Sunday morning. According to a news release from the department, EFD was called to 113 Carter around 7 am for a reported detached garage fire. Upon arrival, firefighters found a garage fully engulfed in flames located to the rear of the mai...

It may be midweek at the earliest before Madison residents can consumer water without having to boil it first. The boil water advisory, issued Thursday afternoon, remains in place for the community until testing can be done on water samples through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. According to Madison M...

There's been no word as of yet as to where Terrapower's new natrium reactor project will land in Kansas, but the possibility of housing the project has generated a lot of interest across the state in recent months. In his regular report to the Regional Development Association of East Central Kansas Board of Directors o...

One person was hurt after a motorcycle wreck in central Emporia on Saturday. Emporia Fire and Emporia Police responded to the crash near Second and Commercial at 4:20 pm. The motorcycle driver had apparently laid the bike down for unlisted reasons. The driver was taken to Newman Regional Health with unspecified injurie...

Fire activity areawide was minimal Saturday despite elevated fire danger. Shortly after 1 pm, Americus and Emporia firefighters responded to a small grass fire in the 200 block of Road 230, about 3 miles west-southwest of Americus. Less than an acre burned before the fire was put out. A cause has not been listed. Winds...