Emporia Community Foundation (ECF). Building on decades of generosity and success, the Foundation honored its past while ...

The State of Kansas ended December 2025 with total tax collections of $1.07 billion, coming in $58.7 million, or 5.2%, below the monthly estimate, according to figures released by the ...

Evora Wheeler, a longtime Emporia civic leader and beloved community volunteer known for her legendary homemade pies, passed ...

Heather Aylward, RN, MSN, chief nursing officer at Newman Regional Health, has been awarded the Nurse Administrator of the ...

A large crowd packed into a single downtown space Friday evening as the January “Makers” edition of Emporia First Friday ...

The first baby of 2026 made a timely entrance just after midnight on New Year’s Day at Newman Regional Health, giving one ...

Her grandfather, Wayne “Jackie” Leffler, and father, Bill Leffler, included Jacquelyne and her sister, Natalie, in all facets ...

Lloyd W. Christmore, 83, Emporia, Kansas, passed away at his home on Thursday, January 1, 2026.

Meadowlark Press has announced the January release of The Marvelous Real, the debut poetry collection by Tess Barry, a ...

The Kansas Department for Children and Families will open applications Jan. 20 for the 2026 Low Income Energy Assistance ...

Richard D. “Dick” Keller passed away on December 7, 2025 at Presbyterian Manor in Emporia, Kansas. He was 82. Dr. Keller came ...

This year produced a seemingly endless array of history-making events and nearly constant change to immigration policy, ...