11 years ago
Due to weather concerns, today's lunchtime Art a la Carte performance has been moved from Cambell Plaza to the Stiefel Theatre in downtown Salina. According to Salina Arts and Humanities,  Musician/Storyteller Thad Beach will perform from 12:20pm to 12:50pm inside the Watson Room at the Stiefel, 151 S. Santa Fe. Admission is free and the audience is ...

11 years ago
Fort Hays State University plans to offer its first doctoral degree, beginning in September. The school said in a news release that it will offer a Doctor of Nursing Practice through its Department of Nursing in the College of Health and Life Sciences. The college dean, Jeff Briggs, said it will be a clinical doctorate rather ...

11 years ago
Roads and highways will be busy around Kansas this Memorial Day Weekend. AAA Kansas projects 37.2 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, a 4.7 percent increase over last year and the highest volume since 2005. Nearly eighty-nine percent of travelers, 33 million, will travel by automobile, ...

11 years ago
Family and friends said goodbye to a longtime Salina area educator, volunteer, and friend. Jerry Dyck was laid to rest Thursday morning. Mr. Dyck was well known to many people who grew up in Salina in the late 1960s through the early 1990s. He was the principal of Sunset Elementary for 27 years, from 1967 t0 ...

11 years ago
The House has approved a bill that would give Kansas' secretary of state the power to prosecute election fraud. The chamber's 67-55 vote Thursday sends the measure to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has sought prosecutorial authority on election fraud cases since taking office in 2011. He has also authored state laws ...

11 years ago
A McPherson woman is jailed on a shoplifting charge in Salina. According to Police Captain Chris Trocheck, 30-year-old Challas Wysocki was confronted by staff at Dillard's Clothing Store in the Central Mall, on Wednesday evening at about 6:30pm. Officers later searched her purse and found merchandise taken from Maurices, Bath & Body Works, Victoria's Secret and JC ...

11 years ago
A newspaper is reporting that email records show David Kensinger, Gov. Sam Brownback's former chief of staff, continues to have influence on the administration even after he became a lobbyist. The Brownback administration disagrees with that contention. The governor said in October he rarely speaks with Kensinger about policy. The Wichita Eagle reports that it requested all ...

11 years ago
The Salina Area United Way is participating in the first nationwide "Red Nose Day" event. On May 21st Red Nose Day will be celebrated across the U.S. for the first time. This campaign is dedicated to raising money for children and young people living in poverty across the world by making people laugh. Red Nose Day was ...

11 years ago
The House has advanced a bill that would give Kansas' secretary of state the power to prosecute election fraud. The chamber gave the measure first-round approval Wednesday. Several lawmakers questioned the necessity of the bill, given the relatively few recorded instances of election fraud. Others expressed concern that the Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach might bring ...

11 years ago
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback says he's not drawing clear lines on what he'll accept as the GOP-dominated Kansas Legislature considers backtracking on one of his major economic initiatives. Brownback said Wednesday that such an approach is more helpful as lawmakers work on a plan for raising taxes. They must close a projected $406 million budget shortfall ...

11 years ago
The discovery of a mortar shell at a Salina scrap business prompted an area of Salina Downtown to be blocked off Wednesday afternoon. Division Chief David Turner from the Salina Fire Department told KSAL News at the scene that employees of Salina Iron & Metal at 312 N. 5th Street made the discovery at around 1:30 ...