8 years ago
Participants in the annual hard winter wheat tour have released their final projection on the size of the 2017 crop in Kansas amid uncertainty to the full extent of storm damage. The Wheat Quality Council's tour forecast Thursday that farmers will cut 281.7 million bushels. The average yield was pegged at 46.1 bushels per acre. This year's ...

8 years ago
A ceremony to honor Salina and Saline County law enforcement officers, and state troopers who have died in the line of duty will be held. The Congress and President of the United States have designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day, and the Week in which May 15 falls as National Police week. The City of ...

8 years ago
New regulations being considered by the Kansas school board includes a lifetime ban on working as a school bus driver for people who commit any crime involving a child. State director of pupil transportation Keith Dreiling tells the Wichita Eagle the ban was proposed by a law-enforcement representative on the committee that drafted the regulations about ...

8 years ago
Millers will operate a time machine made of wood, metal and leather this weekend in Lindsborg. The Old Mill Museum is once again hosting Millfest on Saturday, May 6th and Sunday, May 7th with tours beginning at 9am Saturday. “You go though with a group of about eight people and the tours are continuous through the day,” ...

8 years ago
Kansas regulators are being asked to reconsider their rejection of the proposed sale of the state's largest electric company to a Missouri firm. Kansas City, Missouri-based Great Plains Energy Inc. and Topeka-based Westar Energy Inc. announced Thursday that they made the request in a petition filed with the Kansas Corporation Commission Regulators said last month in rejecting ...

8 years ago
Police called off a high speed pursuit Wednesday afternoon in Salina for safety concerns. According to Captain Paul Forrester, at 2pm officers were providing an escort during a funeral procession on East Crawford to Roselawn Cemetery. The chase began near Lefran and Crawford when a couple of vehicles did not yield, and the driver in a blue ...

8 years ago
Quick action can be lifesaving when a pet is injured by another animal. Just ask Logan Craghead of Manhattan, whose nearly 6-year-old dog Ace, a black Labrador mix, required emergency surgery at Kansas State University’s Veterinary Health Center. Craghead had recently moved to Manhattan for a new job. Ace was staying at his parents' farm near ...

8 years ago
Thursday marks the 10 year anniversary of the beginning of three days of one of the largest severe weather outbreaks in the state's history. May 4th through May 6th 2007, severe weather pounded a large part of the area. The most notable event was the Greensburg tornado on May 4th, 2007. The tornado killed 12 people ...

8 years ago
Two friends who share a common bond of a love for live music are working on a second season of the "Now That's Entertainment" Salina summer concert series. Last year Renee Hardesty and Tim Dixson revived the City of Salina's "That's Entertainment" concert series when officials went a different direction and discontinued it. The series featured ...

8 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's office is planning to crack down on drunk drivers this weekend. According to the agency, as part of the Kansas Department of Transportation's Impaired Driving Deterrence Program, deputies will be conducting a checkpoint. This checkpoint is designed to identify intoxicated drivers. Those motorists suspected of intoxication will be given on-site field sobriety tests. Efforts ...

8 years ago
The desire to do, rather than just exist, is what inspired Salina Senior Center patron Ron Johnson to create art. Johnson’s art will be on display throughout May in the north end of the Dining Room in the Salina Senior Center, 245 N. Ninth, as a part of our Older Americans Month celebration. Operated by the ...