US Fish and Wildlife has removed the lesser prairie chicken from certain federal protections as a threatened or endangered species, depending on the location. The "delisting" is connected to a federal court ruling last year that ended protections under the Endangered Species Act, following legal arguments by ...

Change of valuation notices are being sent out to county residents shortly. During the public comment portion of the Lyon County Commission's regular action meeting Thursday morning, County Appraiser Ryan Janzen informed commissioners that the notices will be sent out to property owners on Friday. Property owners will ...

USD 252 Southern Lyon County is gearing up for its 15th Honor Flight in April. The two-day whirlwind round-trip to the nation's capital will take place April 13th through the 14th and will include 29 veterans, including coordinators and support staff, and 24 USD 252 students. According to lead organizer Megan McGuire, ...

Power has been restored to more than 1,100 Evergy customers following a significant power outage in the downtown corridor Thursday morning. The outage was first reported around 10:15 am, with Evergy's outage map indicating customers were offline from 12th and Commercial south to near Road 155. Locations, including the ...

Cora Miller Hall has served Newman Regional Health, Emporia State University and the community in some capacity for over 50 years -- but hospital leadership say the time has come to demolish the building. On Wednesday, Board of Trustees members voted to give Chief Executive Officer Cathy Pimple the authority to move fo...

Emporia girls bowling finished second Tuesday at Gage Center Bowl in Topeka and will return to the State Meet after qualifying at regionals. The Lady Spartans were led by Sophia Hill, who was second as an individual. Taylor McKay added a fourth place finish. EHS heads to state at Bowlero Northrock in Wichita on March ...

The last Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association Rankings were released on Tuesday, February 24. Emporia girls enter the State Tournament ninth in the 5A team rankings. 5A Girls: Chloe Steele 100 5th Kensley Medrano 120 1st Alexa Castillo 170 3rd 5A Boys: Jose Vargas 285 4th 321A Girls: Lahna Passmore 115 3rd Chase Count...

Emporia boys bowling finished third Tuesday at Gage Center Bowl in Topeka and punched their ticket to the State Meet. The Spartans were led by Nate Green, who was second as an individual. Emporia grabbed the final state qualifier spot at the regional. EHS heads to state at Bowlero Northrock in Wichita on March 5.

Waverly boys basketball defended their home court Monday in the 1AD2 Sub-State first round topping MdCV, 41-33. Waverly led 10‐9 after one. They then extended the lead at the half to 28 to 20. MdCV started the 3rd on an 8-0 run to tie it up at 28, but their offense went dry after that. Waverly took the lead at 36 to...

Burlingame boys basketball avenged a loss that ended their season last year by knocking off Clifton-Clyde in Clyde 47-41 on Monday in the first round of the 1aD1 playoffs. The Bearcats held a 12-9 lead after one. Danny Cain beat the buzzer going into half to give Burlingame the 27-26 advantage. The Bearcats never tra...