9 years ago
Saline County Commissioners support an effort to attract a Tyson Foods chicken plant to North Central Kansas. Last week Tyson put plans on hold for "Project Sunset, a planned new facility in the eastern Kansas community of Tonganoxie.  The decision came after the Leavenworth County Commission on Monday reversed its support of issuing $500 million in ...

9 years ago
Saline County Commissioners unanimously agreed to create a new county department for the Saline County Commission on Aging. According to Chairman Monte Shadwick, the COA’s Board of Directors will remain intact and can focus on providing services to their members. Commissioner Jim Weese, who attends the monthly COA meetings, said that in recent months, County Administrator ...

9 years ago
A Saline County bridge project has abruptly came to a stop. In April, the Saline County  Commission accepted a bid from L&M Contractors to replace a bridge on County Club Road, immediately east of Gypsum Valley Road.  On Monday, L&M crew and subcontractor Johnson Farms were ready to start work; they had brought in a construction ...

9 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a known suspect who stole her boyfriend's SUV after a heated argument inside a home in the 500 block of S. 12th Street. Police say the 29-year-old man and the suspect share a home and custody of their 1-year-old son and had been arguing on and off for the past several ...

9 years ago
An Abilene man survives a close encounter with a deer that hit his motorcycle Saturday evening. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that 49-year-old Jeff Oard was riding a 1994 Harley Davidson Road King motorcycle eastbound on E. Magnolia around 7:30pm Saturday when a deer ran out of the ditch and struck him broadside. The ...

9 years ago
A mock space capsule has landed in Kansas State University's Ice Hall. In this built-to-scale model of the Orion spacecraft, "astronauts" practice emergency escape maneuvers while a university kinesiology team studies their health and fitness levels. It's all part of NASA's plan for further human exploration of the solar system, from a Mars mission to a ...

9 years ago
The fall season continues to roll on for the Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes. And so does the Kansas Wesleyan Coaches Show, which takes place every Monday from 6 to 7 pm, live at Burger Theory inside the Holiday Inn just past Lowe’s. Come in for the $6.99 Build-Your-Own-Burger Special that includes a side. Various members of the ...

9 years ago
Research by a Fort Hays State University faculty member and two graduate students will be funded by a portion of the National Science Foundation grant awarded to Kansas, which was announced Tuesday in an NSF news release. “Fort Hays State will be awarded about $273,000 over the next five years,” said Dr. Mitchell “Mitch” Greer, assistant ...

9 years ago
A Salina man who will be a contestant on what's billed as the toughest competition series on television, says "it will be epic." Brad Godfrey of Salina will be a contestant Tuesday night on the premiere of the new season of “Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge.” The series, hosted by Hall of Fame professional wrestler Steve ...

9 years ago
An article in the Salina Central High School newspaper is generating controversy, and prompted an apology by the USD 305 School District. The article in question appeared in the Salina Central High School Pylon on Friday. It dealt with the topic of racism. The content of article itself isn't the major issue,  as much as a single ...

9 years ago
Duck hunters and friends hitting the marsh on Oct. 7 are invited to stop by the Kansas Wetlands Education Center (KWEC) – located at the southeast corner of Cheyenne Bottoms along K-156 Highway – from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. for a free Hunter Appreciation Breakfast. Biscuits and gravy, coffee, and juice will be served. ...