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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

It is the new year, and people are now getting back into the flow of everyday life as the holidays are over. The Emporia ...

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

Lannette “Lanny” Susan Linebarger, of Emporia, passed away on Sunday, December 28, 2025, at the Flint Hills Care Center in ...