On Sunday, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment activates the Kansas smoke modeling tool. The computer model, available at the Flint Hills Smoke Management Plan website at ksfire.org, lets landowners predict possible smoke and air quality impacts downwind from fire activity. Air quality is a consistent conce...

Progress is visible as Olpe's Fitness Park project continues to take shape. Since November, work has centered on Olpe High School's football stadium. Fitness Park Committee member and spokesman Tyler Schmidt says, pardon the phrase, a lot of ground has been covered. The update on the Fitness Park Phase 1 construction d...

If the cloud deck parts Monday night and early Tuesday morning, you will see a full lunar eclipse. Emporia State University doesn't have a formal watch event on campus, but Peterson Planetarium Director Mark Brown says there are some preliminary and optional activities for his students early Tuesday. If you can see the...

Wintry weather is poised to make a return to parts of the KVOE listening area, albeit brief. The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for Morris and Wabaunsee counties from noon Sunday to 9 am Monday. The Weather Service is expecting a wintry mix of precipitation, with up to an inch of a snow-s...

Emporia's Rapid Response Task Force met Friday to discuss plans to help employees at Hopkins -- and other area employers -- that either have been or will be displaced by different business decisions. Team members are discussing how best to help the 130 employees at Hopkins either already displaced or soon to be displac...

Emporia High basketball claimed two wins at Junction City on Friday. In the girls' game, Emporia earned their second league win of the year 36-26. The Lady Spartans used a 6-2 run to open the game and pulled ahead 10-7 after one. EHS gave up just one basket in the second as the lead grew to four, 14-10. Emporia went...

The Northwest Missouri baseball team scored the final 11 runs of the game to knock off Emporia State 11-5 at the Trusler Sports Complex in Emporia, Kan. on Friday in game one of a three-game series. The Hornets cruised to a 5-0 lead as Brady Unrein drove in a run on a double in the second to put the Black & Gold o...

Emporia High School still has 12 wrestlers competing for a spot on the podium after day one at the 5A state wrestling tournament in Park City. Returning state champions Alexa Castillo (170) and Kensley Medrano (120), reached the championship semi-finals before Medrano was defeated 8-5 in overtime by Brynlee Morris of S...

Quarterfinal action from Thursday. 3A Boys: Hesston 64 Council Grove 23 Osage City 57 Iola 53 OT 2A Girls: Chase County 48 Humboldt 31 Mount Academy 47 Northern Heights 22 Lyndon 70 Atchison Co 11

The Emporia State basketball teams were swept by Missouri Western at the MWSU Fieldhouse in St. Joseph, Mo. on Wednesday. In the women's game, the Lady Hornets came up just short on a comeback attempt in a 72-67 defeat to the Griffons to split the season series. Western tore up the Lady Hornets early hitting four thre...