10 years ago
HAYS, Kan. (AP) - Residents of northwest Kansas are digging out from a winter storm that dumped more than a foot of snow on some areas. National Weather Service meteorologist Jessica Hill says 4 to 15 inches of snow fell across the region before the storm moved out Tuesday afternoon. She says wind gusts of up to ...

10 years ago
Frustrated by a lack of progress in repairing a railroad crossing at the 3300 block of East County Club Road, Saline County Commissioners instructed County Counselor Mike Montoya to notify the Union Pacific Railroad, Scoular Grain, and Exline. A series of complaints last August prompted the County to reduce the speed and place road hazard ...

10 years ago
Court documents show a federal raid of a hunting lodge in the Flint Hills capped a months-long investigation that included the use of undercover hunters, GPS tracking of vehicles and camera surveillance. Federal agents executed the search warrant on Jan. 26 on Eagle Head Outfitters Lodge in Grenola. Court documents filed Friday in U.S. District Court ...

10 years ago
Kansas transportation officials are discouraging travel to western Kansas as a massive winter storm continues causing extreme travel problems. The Kansas Department of Transportation says snow and high winds have forced many highways to close west of Salina. That has resulted in hotels filling up and tractor-trailers being stranded along highways. As of Tuesday afternoon westbound Interstate ...

10 years ago
On a day Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his burrow and predicted an early spring - Central Kansas Extension Agent Jason Graves stopped into the KSAL Morning News with a look getting your garden soil ready. "Soil is a great thing to focus on during the off season," Graves said. "Consider that if you have not done that ...

10 years ago
A long-time Saline County employee plans to run for county clerk. Jamie Doss has announced that she filed by petition to run as a Republican candidate for Saline County Clerk. Doss has been employed at Saline County for 18 years. She was appointed to Saline County Deputy Clerk/Election Officer by Saline County Clerk Don Merriman in ...

10 years ago
A fire prompts a brief closure of a Salina woodworking business. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, Rural Fire District #2 responded to a fire Monday morning at 9:08 at Crestwood Cabinets at 601 East Water Well Road. The fire was in a compressor room. Saline County Sheriff Captain Roger Soldan says that as a precaution ...

10 years ago
Police are investigating a theft from a Salina pawn shop. Police Captain Mike Sweeney says that two trailer tires and a half-dozen 45 pound weights were stolen from outside Bob's Pawn Shop at 925 W. Lincoln. The weights were part of a five-foot hydraulic disc that was attached to a small Nortrac Tractor parked on the ...

10 years ago
HAYS, Kan. (AP) - A winter storm has dumped up to 8 inches of snow across part of western Kansas and made some roads impassable. The Kansas Department of Transportation is reporting that sections of Interstate 70, U.S. 40, U.S. 36 and Kansas 27 were closed Tuesday near the Colorado border. The agency says many roads ...

10 years ago
The City of Lindsborg is forgiving Bethany College of its debt. Bethany College owed more than $100,000 to the city of Lindsborg. Because of that and other financial issues, the college was put on probation last summer by the Higher Learning Commission. Lindsborg city officials tell KWCH that they decided to forgive the school's debt because of ...

10 years ago
A portion of Salina's East Crawford Recreation Area will soon be going to the dogs. Salina City Commissioners Monday approved a new dog park. The dog park will be located on two acres, south of Dean Evans Stadium, east of the southern end of the former runway. The land is in part of an area that ...