A calm weather pattern gets more unsettled this week before shifting back to calm conditions. The forecast calls for a slight chance of showers and storms Monday afternoon, followed by a better chance of shower and storm activity Monday night into early Tuesday and again Tuesday afternoon. Monday afternoon and evening ...

A two-part concert capped off a full day of activities for the second annual Emporia State University She Sings: A Women in Music Festival Saturday evening. The festival was completely free to all students and schools as well as university faculty.

Whether traditional or cultural, education was the main focal point of activities in downtown Emporia as part of the community's annual Cinco de Mayo Celebration on Saturday. As always, the event, hosted in cooperation between Hispanics of Today and Tomorrow and Emporia Main Street, featured a variety of food, music an...

Multiple Democratic candidates at the state and federal levels were in Emporia for an opportunity to speak with voters Saturday afternoon. The Lyon County chapter of the Democratic Party hosted a chili lunch event at the Mary Herbert Education Center, welcoming eight of those candidates, including Gubernatorial Hopeful...

Once again, ESB Financial provided an important service to help residents and businesses protect themselves from the threat of fraud this weekend. The local bank put on its annual Community Wide Free Shred and E-Waste recycling day at its Merchant Street location and ESB staff were busy from the get-go with several veh...

Day one is complete at the 2025 MIAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Pittsburg State. Luke Grace leads in the decathlon after winning the long jump and finishing second in the 100m dash, shot put, and high jump. Luke Hampl is in fifth. Lou Dumas leads the heptathlon after winning the first event of the da...

Senior Night Sweep for Emporia High baseball over Iola on Friday. The Spartans walked off in nine innings 5-4 in game one. EHS spotted the Mustangs a three run advantage. Emporia started the comeback in the fifth scoring two. Oliver Kline singled in a run and Micah Gray grounded out to bring in another. Emporia tied it...

Emporia High softball ended a four game losing skid with a split Friday in Iola. The Lady Spartans scored in every inning for the 14-2 victory in game one. Delaney Davis got Emporia on the board with a two-run in the first. Molly Williams plated the third run of the game with s double in the second. The Lady Spartans b...

The Emporia State baseball team took the series over Northeastern State 10-1 on Friday. NSU got on the board first in the second inning, but the Hornets rolled late scoring nine runs in the fifth inning and later. Four runs scored in the fourth with three coming on an Evan Abbott home run. Frankie Santiago launched ...

The Emporia State baseball team opened their final series of the regular season by run-ruling the Northeastern State RiverHawks 12-2 in eight innings. The Hornets took a 7-0 lead through three with a five-run third inning. Brady Unrein plated four of the runs with ESU's first hit of the day, a grand slam to left fiel...