12 years ago
As the sun sets on the 2013-2014 school year - USD 305 officials are preparing to launch into the digital age next year. High School in Salina will never look the same as the district finalizes a plan to put a personal computer into every student's bookbag. USD 305 Superintendent Bill Hall tells KSAL News that Chromebook ...

12 years ago
The man wanted for stealing numerous vehicles in Saline Co. has been arrested. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL news that William Avise, 29, of Gypsum was arrested in Wichita on May 6th after items that were in the 2007 Chevolet Silverado he stole from a field in Assaria were recovered at a car dealership. At 7pm on ...

12 years ago
A stolen vehicle is set on fire in front of a Salina Motel. The car, a 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis, was taken from the 800 block of Osage between May 10 and May 11. It was found ablaze at Village Inn at 452 S. Broadway early Sunday morning. The Salina Fire Department was able to contain ...

12 years ago
The Salina Police Department is investigating after a stolen gun report. Between May 7 and May 9 a Kolar 12 gauge Trap shotgun was allegedly taken from a deceased Salina man.Family members of Robert Hamm reported to Salina Police while they were on his property at Drury Place (1000 Schippel Drive) after they realized his prized ...

12 years ago
The aviation program at Kansas State University Salina is taking another step in education innovation with a new collaboration to develop curriculum for a jet engine simulator. K-State Salina has agreed to work with Price Induction to create a robust curriculum using the French company's new virtual engine test bench that simulates the DGEN 380 lightweight ...

12 years ago
A western Kansas family concerned about the future of the Ogallala aquifer is testing a state water law that allows senior water rights holders to force junior rights holders to reduce irrigation or be shut off completely. Fifth-generation farmer Jay Garetson and his brother Jarvis first filed an impairment claim in 2005 in Haskell County but ...

12 years ago
The victim of a Sunday night shooting in Salina has been identified. Darrell Carter, 41, of Salina was shot in the groin at the Chapel Ridge Apartment Complex at approximately 10:30pm Sunday night. Capt. Chris Trocheck tells KSAL news that he was involved in a disturbance involving a woman when the shooting suspect kicked in his door, ...

12 years ago
Severe thunderstorms dropped tornadoes, large hail, and damaging wind Sunday evening. Storms that fired in Western Kansas strengthened as they moved northeast. In Barton County, a funnel was reported in the Great Bend area. Large hail was also reported in the city, some of it larger than golf balls. Hail up to the size of tennis balls ...

12 years ago
A Missouri man has died in an accident involving three motorcycles near Lawrence. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 47-year-old Todd Stevenson, of Gladstone, Missouri, was driving his motorcycle Saturday evening on U.S. 24 when he tried to pass on a curve and hit a group of motorcyclists. Stevenson was taken to a Topeka ...

12 years ago
The state's top environmental regulator is considering whether to clear the way again for a new coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas. But environmentalists contend Gov. Sam Brownback's administration is taking short cuts to ensure that the $2.8 billion project is built. Sunflower Electric Power Corp. needs a pollution-control permit from the state Department of Health and ...

12 years ago
Experts say the chances of a Dust Bowl repeat are unlikely because of improved soil conservation, but parts of four Southern Plains states are drier now than during that infamous time in the 1930s. The multiyear drought has brought on more dust storms in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico and Kansas. University of Texas-El Paso geology professor ...