12 years ago
The aviation program at Kansas State University Salina is taking another step in education innovation with a new collaboration to develop curriculum for a jet engine simulator. K-State Salina has agreed to work with Price Induction to create a robust curriculum using the French company's new virtual engine test bench that simulates the DGEN 380 lightweight ...

12 years ago
A western Kansas family concerned about the future of the Ogallala aquifer is testing a state water law that allows senior water rights holders to force junior rights holders to reduce irrigation or be shut off completely. Fifth-generation farmer Jay Garetson and his brother Jarvis first filed an impairment claim in 2005 in Haskell County but ...

12 years ago
The victim of a Sunday night shooting in Salina has been identified. Darrell Carter, 41, of Salina was shot in the groin at the Chapel Ridge Apartment Complex at approximately 10:30pm Sunday night. Capt. Chris Trocheck tells KSAL news that he was involved in a disturbance involving a woman when the shooting suspect kicked in his door, ...

12 years ago
Severe thunderstorms dropped tornadoes, large hail, and damaging wind Sunday evening. Storms that fired in Western Kansas strengthened as they moved northeast. In Barton County, a funnel was reported in the Great Bend area. Large hail was also reported in the city, some of it larger than golf balls. Hail up to the size of tennis balls ...

12 years ago
A Missouri man has died in an accident involving three motorcycles near Lawrence. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 47-year-old Todd Stevenson, of Gladstone, Missouri, was driving his motorcycle Saturday evening on U.S. 24 when he tried to pass on a curve and hit a group of motorcyclists. Stevenson was taken to a Topeka ...

12 years ago
The state's top environmental regulator is considering whether to clear the way again for a new coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas. But environmentalists contend Gov. Sam Brownback's administration is taking short cuts to ensure that the $2.8 billion project is built. Sunflower Electric Power Corp. needs a pollution-control permit from the state Department of Health and ...

12 years ago
Experts say the chances of a Dust Bowl repeat are unlikely because of improved soil conservation, but parts of four Southern Plains states are drier now than during that infamous time in the 1930s. The multiyear drought has brought on more dust storms in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico and Kansas. University of Texas-El Paso geology professor ...

12 years ago
Fort Riley is preparing to welcome a contingent of veterans from World War II's famed Battle of the Bulge. The veterans will take a tour on Wednesday. The Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944 was the costliest single battle for the Allies in World War II. It was Germany's final desperate attempt to turn the ...

12 years ago
A severe weather outbreak is possible Sunday afternoon into Sunday evening. According to the National Weather Service, severe thunderstorms are likely from mid to late afternoon through the evening across the region, as a strong cold front approaches from the northwest. The greatest threat for severe weather will be across western Oklahoma, southwest, central and north-central Kansas, ...

12 years ago
Out of more than 7,500 U.S. state parks, Kansas makes a new list three times. According to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, while compiling a list of some of the country's best state parks, The Active Times couldn't ignore the state of Kansas. Out of more than 7,500 U.S. state parks to choose ...

12 years ago
Gov. Sam Brownback appears to have been eager to sign a bill declaring that the federal government has no authority to regulate prairie chickens in Kansas. Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said Saturday that the governor signed the measure late Friday after returning to Topeka from an Urban League of Kansas dinner in Wichita. The measure protests the ...