9 years ago
Officials will give an update later this week on the status of contamination cleanup in the Salina Airport industrial area. According to the City of Salina, public entities including the City, Salina Airport Authority, Salina USD 305 and Kansas State Polytechnic Salina will hold a public meeting to discuss the status of the former Schilling Air ...

9 years ago
All four Salina area legislators returned home for a question and answer session with the public on Saturday. About 50 people gathered, including Senator Randall Hardy and Representatives Steven Johnson, Diana Dierks, and J.R. Claeys for the townhall style question and answer session. The event was dominated by talk of the state budget, taxes, and education. The legislators ...

9 years ago
HouseMaster Home Inspection of Central Kansas has hired John Elmore as Marketing Manager. His duties include acting as a liaison to local real estate agents, brokers, and offices to support the company’s marketing strategy in Central Kansas. He will also assemble and distribute marketing collateral and communications. Elmore brings 16 years of experience in public and ...

9 years ago
A Kansas House committee has advanced a bill that would protect public employers from liability for employees carrying concealed handguns while working outside of a public building. The House Federal and State Affairs Committee passed the bill Friday. Under the bill, a public employer could not be sued if their employee acted wrongfully or negligently with ...

9 years ago
The cost of upgrading security at Kansas' major mental hospitals in Osawatomie and Larned in order to avoid allowing concealed carry firearms in the building could reach $25 million. A state law beginning in July requires an open-door policy at the two hospitals serving people with severe mental illnesses unless extraordinary security measures have been taken ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has cleared a major obstacle to the construction of a long-delayed coal-fired power plant in the state's southwestern corner. The court Friday rejected a legal challenge from the Sierra Club to a state decision giving Sunflower Electric Power Corp. the go-ahead for its $2.8 billion project. The Hays-based utility wants to build ...

9 years ago
The Salina JCPenney store is not among those the company is closing. The company announced Friday the stores which will close. The store in the Salina Central Mall is not on the list. Five Kansas stores are on the list. Kansas stores that will close include Chanute, Great Bend, Hutchinson, Lawrence, and Winfield. Here is the complete ...

9 years ago
Truckloads of hay from South Dakota farmers are headed south to states where ranchers have been devastated by wildfires. More than a dozen trucks loaded with hay bales left South Dakota Wednesday and Thursday destined for ranches in Colorado and Kansas. Organizer Jed Olbertson says a load has already arrived in the southwest Kansas community of ...

9 years ago
A first of its kind comic-inspired event is coming to Salina. Organizers are busy preparing the first ever Salina Comic Con. The event will feature comics, toys, cards (both sports and non‐sports) artwork and much more. Local and several out of state vendors will be there buying, selling and trading. At the show there might be a ...

9 years ago
The University of Kansas says reported crimes increased 2 percent from 2015 to 2016, led by an increase in theft and criminal damage to property cases. Annual crime statistics from the university's Office of Public Safety show officers handled 770 criminal cases in 2016, up from 757 in 2015. The Lawrence Journal World reports theft reports jumped ...

9 years ago
Three Kansas men accused of plotting to attack Somali immigrants in the state are facing a second federal conspiracy count. A revised indictment returned Thursday in Wichita against Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen of plotting for months last year to "injure, oppress, threaten and intimate" Somalis who lived at a Garden City apartment complex. While ...