12 years ago
The Kansas Supreme Court has reversed a state agency's decision to issue a permit to construct a new coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas. Friday's unanimous decision by the justices is a setback for Sunflower Electric Power Corp. in its plans to build a second plant near Holcomb. The justices ruled that the Kansas Department ...

12 years ago
A man walking across the country with a goat to raise money for a Kenyan charity is hitting the halfway point of his journey. The Salina Journal  reports that Steve Wescott set off on in May from the Space Needle in Seattle. Now, he's crossing through Kansas with his pack goat as he makes his way ...

12 years ago
A Salina man is facing a sex charge in connection with a case involving a 14-year-old girl. Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski tells KSAL News that 22-year-old Jerry M. Dix, 2652 Belmont, was arrested on a charge of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. He is accused of having consensual sex with the 14-year-old, who gave ...

12 years ago
A guest at Salina's La Quinta Inn - is now staying at the Saline County Jail after an incident in the hotel's lobby. Police say alcohol played a role in the events that led to the arrest of 57-year-old Vasco Vasconellos, of Kailua, Hawaii Thursday evening. According to Lt. Scott Siemsen, officers were called to the La ...

12 years ago
An early morning truck fire shuts down I-135 for a short time Friday. The Saline County Sheriff's Office tells KSAL News that a semi-trailer driving southbound early Friday morning around 5am caught fire - destroying it's contents of 41,500-pounds of processed pork bellies. Multiple rural fire districts responded to the scene about 2-miles south of Water Well ...

12 years ago
The Ram Truck brand and Marshall Motors are bringing the award-winning Raminator Monster Truck, driven by Hall Brothers Racing, to Salina this weekend. The Raminator will be at Marshall Motors on South 9th Street Saturday morning beginning at for an experience the family will enjoy. All guests are invited to climb aboard the back of the ...

12 years ago
As many high-profile agencies sit idle because of the federal government shutdown, some are humming along just fine. Many of them have escaped the ax because they pay much of their own way, or enjoy a revenue stream that's insulated from Congress. That means the cable bill and weekly grocery ads will still fill mailboxes because of ...

12 years ago
A Fort Hays State University graduate and his wife will donate $1.6 million over the next four years to the northwest Kansas school. Peter Werth said Thursday the couple wants the gift used for education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and for the university's chemistry department. Werth is a Hays native who received a bachelor's degree ...

12 years ago
A Minneapolis woman receives a national honor from the National Weather Service, and Governor Sam Brownback. The governor Thursday afternoon presented Melba Bruce with the Thomas Jefferson Award. Bruce is a Cooperative Weather Observer for the National Weather Service. As a weather observer she provides daily high and low temperature reports, precipitation and snowfall measurements, and ...

12 years ago
Kansas residents hoping to find health insurance through a new online marketplace continue struggling to reach the point where they can buy coverage. Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger's office Thursday urged consumers to wait several weeks before going to the federally run marketplace. On its third day of operations, long delays in completing the first steps ...

12 years ago
An unusual strong storm front is threatening the Midwest from the central Plains to the Mississippi Valley over the next several days. The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., says the system could bring heavy thunder, wind, rain and possibly tornadoes on Friday. Meteorologist Gregory Carbin says about one-third of Iowa and ...