1 year ago
Several students from the Salina area are among forty-four Kansas State University students who are receiving research awards for the spring 2025 semester. Award recipients conduct faculty-mentored research projects and receive $1,000 scholarships from the college. According to the school, these paid research experiences help students deepen their expertise, connect academics to real life, and prepare ...

1 year ago
Kansas Wesleyan announced its honor roll recipients for the Fall 2024 semester. Full-time students who accumulated a 3.75 GPA or better during the fall semester were named to the President’s Honor Roll, while those who posted a GPA between 3.25-3.74 this past semester were selected to the Dean’s Honor Roll. Area students on the honor roll include: President’s Honor Roll Katelyn ...

1 year ago
Kansas firefighting officials are working to improve state wildfire response, prevention and education following the release of a report from Gov. Laura Kelly’s wildfire task force. The 2023 report provided 30 recommendations for responding to and preventing large fires, improving risk forecasts, and enhancing volunteer fire departments. Kansas fire marshal Mark Engholm said the report included a need ...

1 year ago
A drug trafficking investigation ends with the arrest of a Chapman woman. According to the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office, on Thursday the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit executed a search warrant in relation to a narcotics investigation, at a home in the 2500 Block of Nicholson Road in Chapman. The Chapman Police Department assisted ...

1 year ago
A Salina manufacturer will close by the end of the year, and will gradually layoff 98 employees. Coperion K-Tron notified officials including the Salina mayor, the Kansas Department of Commerce, and KansasWorks that it is closing its manufacturing facility at 606 N. Front Street by the end of the year. The first eight will be let go ...

1 year ago
A man is headed to prison for leaving his baby in the I-135 canal in Wichita. Thirty-five-year-old Vincent Perez was sentenced yesterday to 54 months in prison for aggravated child endangerment and aggravated battery. Perez was accused of leaving his child in the canal near Harry and Hydraulic in July 2024. The baby was rescued and taken ...

1 year ago
More than a dozen people are sickened by carbon monoxide exposure in Reno County. The incident was reported yesterday at StraightLine H-D-D in the 18-hundred-block of East Wasp Road near Yoder. One person was taken to a hospital, and 15 other people were treated at the scene and refused additional medical treatment. Officials say the carbon monoxide ...

1 year ago
Salina Police are seeking tips in connection with a recent business burglary. The crime is the latest Salina Crime Stoppers crime of the week. Police say On Wednesday, January 15th, Ferco Rental at 264 N. Broadway reported a belated burglary of a storage trailer. Sometime between Sunday, January 5th and Monday, January 13th, someone gained access ...

1 year ago
This weekend a super effort to collect soup for the hungry in Salina kicks off. Everyone in Salina is invited to participate in the "Souper Bowl of Hope". The event is organized by those who organize Project Salina.  They invite everyone to join in the effort of gathering 59,000 cans of soup, in conjunction with Super Bowl ...

1 year ago
A change in  immigration policies has prompted the Kansas State Department of Education to offer guidance to schools. According to the agency, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security directive issued on Tuesday of this week rescinded previously issued guidelines for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) enforcement actions that limit law ...

1 year ago
Ad Astra Books & Coffeehouse is now accepting applications for the Cash Hollistah Scholarship. The scholarship, named after Salina rapper/poet Cash Hollistah, will be awarded to a graduating senior in Central Kansas who shows merit in the field of community enrichment, as well as poetry, music, or visual art. Students must fulfill academic requirements, and plan to ...