A Council Grove church had moderate fire and heavy smoke damage after a fire Wednesday. Council Grove Berean Baptist, 330 Huffaker, caught fire Wednesday. Council Grove Assistant Fire Chief and Public Information Officer Steve Crichton tells KVOE News fire developed in two offices and caused damage to the south half of...

Emporia Police officers have arrested a man on suspicion of criminal sexual activity and another on suspicion of kidnapping. Luis Hernandez-Ortiz, age and hometown not listed, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of two counts of rape, as well as two counts of aggravated sodomy and one count of kidnapping. Separately, a...

Construction is coming to Emporia's Transfer Station. Work is planned between Monday and April 5, and the city says this will have an effect on how materials are unloaded. The tipping floor will be closed for repairs, so there will be temporary disposal areas so the public and city trucks can still use the Transfer Sta...

As if it wasn't busy enough, Emporia's Street Cats Club is adding a new dimension to its operations. Founder Victoria Partridge, the guest on KVOE's On-Air Chat on Wednesday, says Street Cats is now helping feral cats get into new settings: barns. Partridge says a partnership with the K-State Shelter Med program helped...

Emporia is having another No Kings rally later this month. Organizers plan to be at the intersection of Sixth and Commercial on March 28 from 11 am to 1 pm. Organizers say No Kings is a nonviolent protest of what they see as "authoritarian power grabs" at the federal level while also serving to "defend d...

Year 11 for Anthony Markowitz at the helm of the Emporia High baseball program is underway, and the Spartans are hoping to build on one of the program's best recent seasons. The Black and Red continue to prepare for the 2026 campaign after setting a recent program mark with 15 wins a year ago. The Spartans will have so...

The Emporia State baseball team split two games over the weekend and took the series 2-1 over Central Oklahoma as head coach John Martin made his first return to Edmond, Okla. to face his former team. The Hornets got back into the win column for a series on Saturday with a 12-3 win. UCO took an early 2-0 lead in the s...

The Emporia State track & field teams wrapped up the indoor portion of their season at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships in Virginia Beach, Va. on Saturday. Two Hornets and two Lady Hornets finished with Second Team All-American honors. Isabella Davie had the second best score in program...

On Sunday, the Flint Hills League All League teams were released for boys and girls basketball. Local athletes receiving recognition: Girls: 1st team: Emory Speece Osage City, Allie Kneisler Lyndon and Kaelyn Boss Osage City. 2nd team: Jayla Jenkins Osage City, Ava Wilson Chase County and Jardyn Segrist of Lyndon. Boys...

Emporia's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy earned a perfect record in Kansas City this past weekend. The team took three competitors to the New Breeds Jiu-Jitsu tournament in KC Saturday, with all three earning gold medals. Trenton Carroll, who last month had a successful Amateur MMA debut for Shamrock FC, took the top posi...