3 years ago
OCCK Transportation is recognizing the recipients of the 2022 Driver Safety Recognition Awards.  The organization is honoring 48 drivers with more than 193 years of safe driving. According to the organization, the OCCK Transportation Division Safe Driver Recognition and Award Program is designed to distinguish and honor transportation drivers who have proven their skill in avoiding ...

3 years ago
The Barton County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a single-vehicle accident in which a driver left the scene on foot, leaving behind a disabled passenger. According to the agency, when deputies arrived at the scene in rural Barton County they found a red 1999 Chevrolet S-10 pickup overturned in a ditch. Deputies also discovered a 40-year-old male, ...

3 years ago
Multiple area students have been awarded Dane Hansen scholarships. The Dane G. Hansen Foundation of Logan has named 229 high school seniors from 48 northwest Kansas schools as winners in its 48th annual scholarship competition. In selecting award winners, the scholarship committee considered proficiency in verbal and writing skills. Other important factors are academic records, test scores ...

3 years ago
After over 30 years in law enforcement Salina Deputy Police Chief Sean Morton is planning to retire. According to the Salina Police Department, Morton plans to retire on March 24th after 31 years of service to the department and the Salina Community. Deputy Chief Morton started his career with the Salina Police Department in 1991.  Between 1991 ...

3 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan’s Department of Music will host a jazz festival next week. According to KWU, the jazz festival will feature multiple performances across three days – March 20-22 – the majority of which involve guest artist, composer and saxophonist Rick Hirsch. Hirsch is an award-winning composer, arranger and saxophonist who began his career as personal music copyist ...

3 years ago
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly announced the release of what she says is largest, most comprehensive cancer prevention and control plan in state history. According to the Governor's Office, the plan outlines how the State will allocate resources over the next five years to prevent cancer and reduce the disease’s burden on Kansans who have been diagnosed ...

3 years ago
An inmate at a Kansas prison was found dead on Monday. According to the Kansas Department of Corrections, El Dorado Correctional Facility resident Marcos Issac Delarosa died Monday. He was found unresponsive in his housing unit. Staff began life-saving measures immediately and continued after emergency medical services arrived. The cause of death is pending the results ...

3 years ago
A Salina man who tried to hide from police in his mother's basement was arrested on a couple of warrants Sunday. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 35-year-old Thomas Golde was taken into custody after he allegedly struggled with officers in the doorway of a basement entrance. Police say the man's mother called to ...

3 years ago
The Salina Crossroads Marathon has secured a title sponsor, and over 700 registrations, for the upcoming event in November. Race organizers say Vortex Companies  are the 2023 Salina Crossroads Marathon Title Sponsor. “We are proud to be the title sponsor for the Salina Crossroads Marathon”, commented Travis Young, CEO of Vortex Companies. “I ran in the ...

3 years ago
Cleanup is underway after a train derailed in McPherson. The derailment took place yesterday morning near the 12-hundred-block of South Main, and officials say that the incident led to a small grass fire. The train was leaking denatured alcohol, but authorities say there is no danger to the public and no injuries have been reported.

3 years ago
The second largest bank failure in U.S history occurred on Friday in California, and Sunday night federal regulators closed a crypto-focused bank in New York. Back home here in Kansas, the Kansas Department of Credit Unions on March 3rd placed a credit union in the Dickinson County Community of Enterprise in conservatorship. An order transferred control ...