Chester Thomas Fruit, known as Tom, was born in Emporia, KS in 1961. Tom grew up in Haviland, Kansas, where his high school graduating class was just a dozen students.

Emporia is set to join the rest of the globe in celebrating the world’s largest sporting event. Visit Emporia announced Friday that the city will host the official countdown clock for the 2026 FIFA ...

The winter sports season is slowly coming to an end, and another sport has finished its season in bowling. Spartan Bowling travelled to Wichita for the final meet of the ...

Emporia is in construction season, and three large-scale projects appear to be on pace to open in the second quarter of the ...

And the Lee Beran building — whose future was ambiguous under the previous proposal — remains central to the plan. Executive Director of the Emporia Rec Center Amanda Gutierrez summed it up well: “We ...