7 years ago
House Beautiful magazine has named Marion's historic Elgin Hotel the Most Famous Hotel in Kansas. This comes less than two years after Jeremy and Tammy Ensey bought and renovated the hotel. The Enseys purchased the Elgin in 2016 and dubbed it the "finest fully-renovated 19th-century historic boutique hotel in Kansas." The hotel, located between Wichita and Kansas ...

7 years ago
On Wednesday, Bank VI in Salina announced that it had been acquired by Plains Bancshares, the parent company of Plains State Bank from Plains, Kan. In the agreement, Plains Bancshares will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Sixth Bancshares, the holding company of Bank VI. The current management team of Bank VI is expected to join ...

7 years ago
Smoke drifting into the Salina area Wednesday afternoon is from three large grass fires in Rice County, and a controlled burn at the Smoky Hill Weapons Range. Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer  made an emergency declaration for the Rice County fires. Officials were deploying Black Hawk helicopters to aid in the response. The Smoky Hill Weapons Range was ...

7 years ago
A brief police presence at a Salina middle school early Wednesday afternoon was not related to walkouts earlier in the day across the country, or to any threats. During the noon hour a couple of officers responded to Lakewood Middle School to assist the school resource officer. According to USD 305, it was in response to ...

7 years ago
Students across the country, across Kansas, and across Salina walked out  Wednesday morning. At 10:00 local time students walked out, and advocated for safer schools and stricter gun safety laws. The walkout was designed to last 17 minutes, or one minute for each person who died in last month's mass shooting at a Florida high school. Students ...

7 years ago
Additional details are being revealed in the child endangerment case against the stepmother of a missing Wichita boy. According to a court affidavit released yesterday, Emily Glass allegedly smoked marijuana the day before five-year-old Lucas Hernandez disappeared. Glass told police she smoked marijuana on February 16th and then took her one-year-old daughter to a Wichita restaurant. Glass faces ...

7 years ago
With a dedication to the education of the professional population, Fort Hays State University has earned recognition for being among the nation’s top professional graduate degree programs. Abound: Grad School, a college guidance system network for master’s-seeking professionals, commends Fort Hays State University for addressing the issues that matter most to grad students: affordable options for ...

7 years ago
A single vehicle crash along Interstate 70 in Dickinson County claimed the life of a teenage girl from Abilene Tuesday morning. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol 18-year-old Mariah Lowe was driving a 2016 Nissan Sentra headed east. In the area of  mile marker 284 Lowe left the road on the south side for an unknown reason. ...

7 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan University Debate & Forensics students last week competed at the National Christian College Forensics Invitational and brought home multiple nation champions. According to KWU, twenty Christian colleges and universities from across the nation gathered at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA, on March 8–10 to celebrate their Christian heritage and compete in a national ...

7 years ago
The Greater Salina Community Foundation will host Salina’s seventh annual Match Madness giving day on Thursday. On this one day, donors can multiply their impact when they give to one or more of the 75 participating charities. All donations will go to a participating organization’s endowed fund held at the Greater Salina Community Foundation. These funds ...

7 years ago
Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer Tuesday issued drought declarations for the entire state. The declaration includes all 105 counties either in an emergency, warning or watch status. “The entire State of Kansas has been considered in drought or abnormally dry conditions for the past several weeks,” said Governor Colyer. “This has led to an extremely high risk ...