Nearly two months after announcing the departure of its inaugural leader, Southwick House has selected the individual who will be taking over the reins of the organization for the future. Sunday night, Southwick Board President Jeremy Dorsey announced via a news release that the organization has chosen Cara Codney to s...

Plenty of community, combined with an abundance of soul, made for a great turnout at the second annual Taste of Soul Food fundraising meal for the Emporia Eastside Community Group on Sunday. The group hosted the meal, which included soul-food staples such as barbecue neck bones, chicken, collard greens, mac & chees...

Emporia's Regal Plumb was celebrating hundreds of years of history in Emporia, as well as Emporia itself with a house party unlike any other Sunday afternoon. The bed and breakfast, and former home of Emporia co-founder, Preston Plumb and his wife Carrie Plumb, opened its doors to the public for a Founders Day celebrat...

Emporia Police officers say one person was arrested after a short foot pursuit in central Emporia early Sunday. The incident allegedly began shortly before 2 am after an attempted traffic stop in the 700 block of Oak. The driver allegedly got out of the car in question and ran -- only to get arrested in the 700 block o...

Bidding was hot and heavy for Emporia Main Street's 2026 Public Improvement Auction on Saturday. Between an online auction, live auction and dessert auction, plus a performance by HiFi's Dueling Pianos, the event generated over $42,000. Main Street Community Development Coordinator Jessica Buchholz says the event highl...

The air was seasonally chilly for Emporia's annual Polar Plunge on Saturday. Air temperatures at Mouse Lake got to 30 degrees by event time at 11:30 am. Light flurries, noticed for several hours before the event, vanished shortly before the plunge. Water temperatures were listed in the mid-30s. The event generates fund...

More charges have been added against a Coffey County man accused of child sex abuse. At an arraignment hearing in Burlington on Wednesday, Roy Anthony Hernandez had four new counts added. Hernandez was initially facing 22 counts of rape, aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated indecent liberties involving two childre...

The CareArc Board of Directors is meeting Tuesday. Board members will discuss state grants after going through the regular financial report. There will also be be regular reports on medical, dental, pharmacy and quality matters, as well as a standard update on credentials and privileges. The meeting will be at noon at ...

Emporia's Southwick House is quickly closing in on its $3.6 million goal for its capital campaign to bring a new transitional housing facility to the community. During an interview on KVOE's Talk of Emporia Friday morning, Southwick Board President Jeremy Dorsey told KVOE the agency is roughly $300,000 away from said g...

Work to replace the historic Rocky Ford Bridge is on track for completion by summertime, according to the latest information from Lyon County Engineer Wayne Scritchfield. During Thursday's Lyon County Commission meeting, Scritchfield reported that structural work is roughly 60 percent completed on the new bridge, locat...

Emporia Fire will be making the move to its new headquarters soon and is inviting the community to a housewarming party of sorts next month. The City of Emporia and EFD will be holding a grand opening ceremony on March 1 at the new Station One headquarters in the 500 block of Market Street. Emporia City Manager Trey Co...

Typically, the United Way of the Flint Hills doesn't issue any fundraising updates from the start of the year until its annual Campaign Celebration. That's not the case this year -- because the campaign goal is definitely in sight. The United Way says it has generated $485,000 in donations, fast approaching the goal of...

Now that the city of Emporia and Lyon County are among local entities that have signed off on the Region I Hazard Mitigation Plan, Lyon County Emergency Management Director Jarrod Fell says there are goals to tap that plan for targeted federal funding. Fell says notices of intent have already been filed for two project...

There is an enrollment period underway soon for the USDA's Farmer Bridge Assistance Program. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says ag producers can begin enrolling Monday through April 17. Farmers and ranchers who filled out their crop acreage reports shortly after the program was unveiled late last year will have pre-fille...

Jury scams are now becoming commonplace nationwide. And there is another circulation happening locally. The Lyon County Sheriff's Office now says it has received "multiple" reports of people being contacted by phone and getting told they missed jury duty. Those calls also include payment demands to avoid arre...