9 years ago
About 2,500 people are expected to take off early Saturday on a 200-mile bicycle race through the Flint Hills. The Wichita Eagle reports the Dirty Kanza race started 12 years ago go with 36 riders but it has grown into an endurance race that brings in an estimated $2.2 million every spring. The race starts and ends ...

9 years ago
Kansas legislators are hashing out several dozen educational policy issues before wrestling with how much to increase spending on public schools. House and Senate negotiators resumed talks Friday on a plan that would phase in an increase of at least $230 million in funding over two years. But they're also drafting a new per-student formula for distributing ...

9 years ago
A judge has delayed until next year the trial of three Kansas men accused of plotting to attack Somali immigrants in the meatpacking town of Garden City. The trial for Curtis Wayne Allen, Patrick Eugene Stein and Gavin Wayne Wright had been scheduled to begin June 13. But U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren granted on Friday ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a burglary from a storage unit. Officers were called to Salina Mini Storage, 401 N. Santa Fe after staff discovered that a lock had been cut on a unit being rented out by David Root of Salina. Police say sometime between May 22 and June 1, someone cut the lock on the door ...

9 years ago
On Monday May 29, 2017 Saline County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to Lang Diesel located at 144 W. Farrelly Road, just one mile south of Salina, for an alarm. Upon arrival deputies found that a small window on an overhead garage door had been broken and entry had been made. Suspect(s) stole approximately $250 in cash and two ...

9 years ago
Officials Thursday celebrated Salina’s summer effort to feed hungry children. A ceremonial ribbon cutting at Heusner Elementary School signified the beginning of the free summer lunch program. Free lunches are available again this summer for children who are out of school. USD 305 food and nutrition services director Cindy Foley told KSAL News that the free ...

9 years ago
Salina City Commissioners will discuss a "global aeronautic initiative" at a special meeting this month. According to the City of Salina, the city commission will meet Tuesday, June 13th, for a special meeting.  Kansas State University President Richard B. Myers will address the commissioners and the public to announce a global aeronautic initiative being explored by ...

9 years ago
As the Thursday noon deadline to file to run for office approached, another candidate entered the Salina City Commission race and four more entered the Salina USD 305 School Board race. There are three open seats on the Salina City Commission. On the Salina USD 305 School Board there are three seats with four-year terms open ...

9 years ago
PepperJax Grill will bring its grilling experience front and center to hungry guests as it opens its first location at 3015 9th Street on Wednesday, June 7. To celebrate the new restaurant, PepperJax is inviting guests to a special Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Celebration on June 20th.  PepperJax Grill restaurants have been firing up classic Jax ...

9 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback says gun-rights advocates and representatives for the state's hospitals couldn't reach agreement on a legislative proposal aimed at keeping concealed guns out of state hospitals and other public health care facilities. The Senate was debating the measure Thursday. A 2013 law requires public health facilities to allow concealed guns into their buildings starting ...

9 years ago
A Salina man flies into action to stop an assailant who was holding a woman at knife point. Police arrested 33-year-old Jason M. Lynn Wednesday night after 29-year-old Benjamin Suenram jumped into the fray to save the victim and hold Lynn down until officers arrived. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that the domestic dispute in the ...