The City of Emporia has responded to a lawsuit alleging it did not handle certain zoning matters tied to a potential data center correctly. Amanda Mendoza, Kenneth Bruner, Ann Bruner and the separate Bruner trusts claim the Digital Infrastructure overlay, developed this past summer as a way to set zoning for a roughly ...

Growth, collaboration, and responsible planning can strengthen the local economy and potentially help ease the residential tax burden. Emporia is at an economic crossroads. Businesses have left, closed or downsized over the last few years. However, that does not mean that Emporia cannot recover. How does Emporia attrac...

Costs related to the county's new 911 center will be one of the many items to come before Lyon County Commissioners when they convene for their weekly action meeting Thursday morning. Commissioners will be presented with two items for consideration from Lyon County Controller Dan Williams. The first will be a proposal ...

One person is in custody following a domestic disturbance call in Osage County that resulted in a Special Response Team deployment Tuesday morning. According to Osage County Sheriff Chris Wells, at approximately 6:36 am Osage County 911 received a call for a welfare check at 1132 Lansing Street in Osage City. Osage Cit...

Flint Hills Technical College has a busy three days through the end of the week starting with the return of its culinary competition Thursday evening. The Cut will kick off activities on Thursday evening inside the main campus, with culinary arts students Susana Sanchez, Isaac Joy, Antonio Miranda and Emily Hulce compe...

The Emporia State volleyball team ticked up a spot in this week's AVCA Top 25 Coaches Poll. The Lady Hornets went 2-0 on the road last week in MIAA play picking up victories at Northeastern State and Arkansas-Fort Smith in sweeps to go to 17-3 on the year and moved up to No. 18. Ferris State again got all but two fir...

The Emporia State football team picked up two more weekly football awards from the MIAA after moving to 6-0 last weekend with a 35-21 victory at Missouri Southern. Senior linebacker Landon Boss picked up his eighth career MIAA Defensive Player of the Week Award and sophomore quarterback Jamison Sarver was named the Of...

The Emporia State football team has moved up a spot to No. 8 in this week's AFCA Division II Football Coaches Poll. The Hornets moved to 6-0 with a 35-21 win at Missouri Southern last week. Ferris State remains atop the poll with every first-place vote and the top five stayed the same with Harding, Kutztown, CSU Pueb...

The Emporia and Area Athletes of the Week were announced Monday morning. Izabella Hinst is the EHS Athlete of the Week. The junior punched her ticket to the 5A Tennis State Meet with a 4th place finish on Saturday in Andover. Corey Yowell of Madison is the Area Athlete of the Week. The senior found the end zone five ti...

Emporia State and No. 18 Washburn scored goals within a minute of each other in the first half, but couldn't score again in a 1-1 tie at the ESU Pitch on Sunday. Ella Favot picked up her seventh goal of the year midway through the first on an assist from Taylor McFalls, but the Lady Hornets allowed the equalizer less ...