9 years ago
A residential fire leaves a family homeless and investigators looking into what caused the blaze. The Saline County Sheriff's Office reports that when crews from Rural Fire District #3 arrived Sunday evening at about 5:30pm, they could see smoke pouring out of a trailer home at 7232 W. Colt Road. Lt. Stan Fruits tells KSAL News that ...

9 years ago
Equipment at a small milling company in New Cambria was damaged by fire over the weekend. Lt. Stan Fruits with the Saline County Sheriff's Office tells KSAL News that a fire at Farmer Direct Foods, 5641 Mariposa Road ignited when the flow of grain stopped and the grinding stones sparked a fire into the filter on ...

9 years ago
Winter weather is in the forecast for Kansas and Kansas Department of Transportation crews are equipped and ready. “Every year KDOT has snow fighter training and this year is no different,” said KDOT’s Bureau Chief of Maintenance Clay Adams. “Our crews are ready to respond to whatever winter brings us.” KDOT has stored 130,000 tons of salt ...

9 years ago
The first accumulating snow of the season is forecast to fall in Central Kansas later this week. According to the National Weather Service, an approaching storm system will bring increasing chances for snow in the early morning hours on Wednesday. Snow will spread eastward across the area during the day, before diminishing on in evening. Gusty northeast ...

9 years ago
The 1st Infantry Division Band will once again join forces with the Junction City Community Band for a free holiday concert. The holiday revue will begin at 7:30 p.m. each night, with doors opening at 7 p.m. Victor Wong, director of the Junction City Community Band, and Frank Tracz, professor of music and director of bands ...

9 years ago
The only planned public hearing on the biggest utility merger in Kansas history is scheduled for Monday in suburban Topeka. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://j.mp/2fUGSPV) the Kansas Corporation Commission has scheduled Monday evening at a Topeka-area high school as the single public hearing on the proposed $12.2 billion acquisition of Westar by Great Plains Energy, the ...

9 years ago
Small Kansas communities are benefiting from a fire truck and equipment program offered through the Kansas Forestry Service at Kansas State University. The Kansas Forestry Service, which is one of five state forestry agencies in the nation housed at a land-grant university, issues trucks and equipment through the Federal Excess Personal Property program and the FireFighter ...

9 years ago
A concert at the Bicentennial Center in Salina this week will be a little extra special for a 7-year-boy who is battling a life-threatening disease. Carter Hampton will get to meet, and hang out with his favorite band "Newsboys". Brave Young Hearts, a Colorado organization that helps grant adventures to children with terminal or life-threatening diseases, ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court is considering a rule that would require records related to the selection of nominees for the high court and other judgeships to be made public. The Topeka Capital-Journal  reports the rule change would require those records to be retained for at least three years after the nominating commission has made its decision. ...

9 years ago
Kansas hit its new, more pessimistic revenue projections for November, with tax collections exceeding estimates by $1.4 million. But the report Thursday from the state Department of Revenue did not significantly alter the state's gloomy budget picture. It still faces a projected shortfall of more than $345 million for the current fiscal year that began July ...

9 years ago
Kansas officials plan to reduce funding to providers of residential psychiatric care for children in a move expected to save about $350,000 from the state general fund. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services' announcement comes after Gov. Sam Brownback cut Medicaid reimbursement rates by 4 percent in May to help ...