9 years ago
Tim Bower, a computer systems technology professor at Kansas State University's Polytechnic Campus, is being recognized for his teaching methods in robotics programming by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE. Bower composed an article in April last year about his strategies for educating beginning students on the complexities of robotics and it was ...

9 years ago
A shot of adrenaline in the form of a $2 million grant will help in the relocation, and expansion, of the Salina campus of the KU School of Medicine. The Dane G. Hansen Foundation awarded a $2 million grant to the Salina Regional Health Foundation to assist in the remodeling of the new medical education ...

9 years ago
The Class of 2029 will begin their education journey on Thursday morning in Salina - in an All-Day Kindergarten classroom. "It's going to be so exciting, seeing all those kindergarten kids actually come and stay for lunch and stay for the entire day," said Superintendent Bill Hall. "Research absolutely supports the need for All-Day K and absolutely ...

9 years ago

9 years ago
Police are looking for a white male with red hair who attempted to leave a Salina business with a power saw on Tuesday evening without paying. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, staff at Waters True Value Hardware, 460 S. Ohio, confronted the suspect after he used store wire cutters to sever the theft protection cord from ...

9 years ago
A Salina woman is jailed on charges that she took part in a home invasion and battered a woman inside. Police arrested 49-year-old Lisa Hinderliter on a warrant Tuesday in connection to an incident at an east Salina home on June 6th. Police allege that Hinderliter and a male accomplice forced their way into the house, grabbed ...

9 years ago
This weekend, troopers across the state of Kansas will be mobilizing for a statewide Roving Aggressive Violation Enforcement, or RAVE, to address the increase in fatal crashes. The enforcement will be held Friday and Saturday. A RAVE is a saturation patrol that takes place when many troopers converge on a specific area looking for any drivers ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Corporation Commission has expanded restrictions on the amount of oilfield wastewater that can be injected underground, a practice that has been linked to earthquakes in south central Kansas in recent years. During a meeting Tuesday, the commission left in place an 8,000-barrel per day limit in five specific areas of Harper and Sumner counties. ...

9 years ago
In a 4-0 vote, the Saline County Health Department’s Advisory Council recommended that the Saline County Commission continue to make home health services available to Saline County residents, through its Health Department.  Prior to her motion, Amanda Michaelis said it was also good that the County Commission had asked if its home health agency was ...

9 years ago
A dramatic increase in the amount of “unreserved funds” that might be carried over from the 2016 budget drew many comments from Saline County Commissioners, hopeful Commission candidates, and the public at Tuesday’s 2017 budget hearing. At the televised hour long public hearing, Republican nominee from the Second Commission District, Robert Vidrickson asked that the 2016 ...

9 years ago
In the wake of the tragic accidental death of a 10-year-old boy at Schlitterbahn Waterpark on Sunday, questions are surfacing about regulations of pools and waterparks around the country. "Yea, the news from Kansas City at Schlitterbahn, that's disturbing," said Salina City Manager Jason Gage. "We have not heard all the story to that - so we ...