9 years ago
A central Kansas reservoir is indefinitely closed because of high levels of potentially harmful blue-green algae. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the Kansas Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have announced the closure as of Thursday of the Marion Reservoir. That does not include Marion County Lake. Officials say ...

9 years ago
Kansas lawmakers' approval of a measure meant to keep concealed guns out of hospitals is a testament to how much the Republican-controlled Legislature shifted to the left in last year's elections. Kansas has been a testing ground for gun-rights advocates' favored policies. But state lawmakers this past week bucked the National Rifle Association by rewriting a ...

9 years ago
A proposal to restore guaranteed tenure for some Kansas public school teachers has become part of legislative talks on education funding. Republican Rep. Clay Aurand of Belleville outlined the proposal Friday as the House negotiated with the Senate over a plan to boost spending on public schools. Negotiators said they would review it. Lawmakers are looking at phasing ...

9 years ago
Authorities found three children alive and well and apprehended the man they apparently were with who is suspected in the death of a woman at a Wichita home that burned down. An Amber Alert was issued Friday night for William J. Thompson III, 12, Ethan Thompson, 5, and Damien Wright, 2, who authorities believed were with ...

9 years ago
What shapes a man into a leader - with the mettle to orchestrate the invasion that saved Europe from Nazi tyranny? Where is the well of wisdom and grace to win the White House? A group of Kansans believe the answers lie here in the heartland and can be touched by generations to come at the Eisenhower ...

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 ...