8 years ago
A Wichita church says a girl whose body was found in a lake drowned while attending a party for middle-schoolers. The girl's body was found Sunday afternoon. Wichita Fire Department Interim Chief Tammy Snow says the search began several hours earlier after the child's parents came to pick up the youth from the party. Emergency and fire crews ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a burglary from a north side storage unit. Police say sometime between August 11 and August 24, someone cut the lock on a storage shed at City Wide Storage, 440 N. Ohio and stole a Generac GP 3300 portable generator and a Bosch hammer drill and case. Loss is listed at $1010. Salina engineering ...

8 years ago
Police are reviewing surveillance video from a Salina grocery store after a male suspect duped the cashier with some fake cash for a gift card. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that around 3pm Saturday, a black, male suspect in his 20's used 8 counterfeit $50 bills to purchase a $400 Visa gift card at the ...

8 years ago
Another major retail store in Salina is closing. The Dillard's store in the Salina Central Mall is closing. While it had been rumored for several months, employees were officially notified on Monday. The Dillard's corporate office confirmed to KSAL News that the store is closing. According to the company, clearance sales at the store have already started. ...

8 years ago
The new fixed route bus service from Belleville to Salina, 81 Connection, will start running on Tuesday, September 5th. For the first 90 days of operation, complimentary fares will be offered for all riders. The 81 Connection bus service will have three bi-directional trips each day, Monday through Friday. The first route will start in Belleville at ...

8 years ago
Gas prices are expected to rise after Hurricane Harvey. Federal estimates over the weekend said close to one-quarter of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico was offline due to the storm and natural gas production was also lower. More than 100 drilling platforms were evacuated and rigs were closed down as Harvey came roaring across ...

8 years ago
Houston remains a city under siege by Mother Nature Monday, and help is on the way from across the country including from Kansas.  The Bayou City is facing what the National Hurricane Center calls "catastrophic and life-threatening flooding" as what was once Hurricane Harvey continues to hover over the region. People were urged over the weekend ...

8 years ago
Authorities are working to identify skeletal remains that were found this weekend at Melvern Lake in eastern Kansas. A park ranger with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found the remains on Friday night at the lake, which is northeast of Emporia, Kansas. The Osage County Sheriff's office and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are working to ...

8 years ago
It's been hosting events now for about a month, and later this week it will host an event in which the public is invited. The Salina Parks and Recreation Department will host an open house at the downtown Salina fieldhouse this Wednesday. The fieldhouse opened back in July, hosting the Jeff Hawkins KU Basketball Camp as ...

8 years ago
Westar Energy and Great Plains Energy have formally asked the Kansas Corporation Commission to approve a merger between the two utility companies. The companies submitted a filing to the KCC Friday, seeking formal approval of a $14 billion merger announced in July. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the merger request comes after the commission earlier this year rejected ...

8 years ago
A move in Kansas to increase pay for corrections officers in prisons is building pressure on legislators to consider raises for all government workers. But lawmakers would have to figure out how to pay for the raises even after a significant tax increase this year. Budget director Shawn Sullivan told lawmakers this week that revenues must grow ...