8 years ago
High school basketball is down to its final week. The eight best teams in every class are ready to slug it out on the hardwood for the state championship, including multiple Salina area schools. Saline County sends four teams to the big dance. State bound Saline County teams include: Salina Central (boys & girls) Sacred Heart boys ...

8 years ago
A judge is weighing the fate of two federal lawsuits in Kansas challenging the constitutionality of a state law requiring prospective voters to prove their U.S. citizenship. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson didn't indicate when she would rule after presiding over a three-hour hearing Friday in Kansas City, Kansas, on motions seeking partial summary judgment. At the ...

8 years ago
Kansas State officials say the university will reduce its budget by $6 million. President Richard Myers said Friday the cuts to the current fiscal year budget are in response to a drop in enrollment and uncertain state funding. The Manhattan Mercury reports the cuts represent a 2.21 percent across-the-board reduction. Department heads will be responsible for determining ...

8 years ago
Officials worry this year's potential for a fire outbreak in Kansas could be worse than last year, when the state saw its biggest known wildfire. Jim Unruh, a volunteer fire department chief in Marquette, helped fight last year's Anderson Creek blaze that charred 390,000 acres in Oklahoma and Kansas. Unruh tells The Wichita Eagle that this year ...

8 years ago
A big tax increase for Kansas appears inevitable as the state wrestles with budget problems. Even many Republicans are focused on rolling back past income tax cuts that are GOP Gov. Sam Brownback's biggest political legacy. GOP moderates were working with Democrats in both chambers. A state Supreme Court ruling this week that the state isn't spending ...

8 years ago
     The Abilene High School basketball teams advanced to the 4A Division I basketball tournament in Salina next week with a pair of wins over Ottawa.  The two games couldn’t have been more different.  In the first game the Cowgirls cruised to a 65-30 victory over The Lady Cyclones, while in the second game ...

8 years ago
A three vehicle crash involving two SUVs and a motorcycle sent two people to the hospital in Salina Saturday afternoon. Salina Police Officer Kyle Jacobs told KSAL News at the scene witnesses say that the crash was caused by an SUV failing to stop at red light. According to Jacobs a Nissan SUV was headed east on ...

8 years ago
      It will be an all Abilene Ottawa final Saturday night in the Abilene Sub-State.  The Cowgirls punched their ticket to the final tonight with an impressive 71-41 victory over El Dorado. The top seeded Cowgirls used a 16-2 run over the final 3:27 of the first half to turn an eight point ...

8 years ago
A modern day cattle roundup shut down traffic ramps on a busy section of Kansas highways in Johnson County. The Kansas Department of Transportation closed ramps about noon Friday near Kansas 10 and Interstate 435 after an semi-trailer truck overturned on the westbound Interstate 35 lanes to Kansas 10, releasing dozens of cows. At one point, between ...

8 years ago
Authorities say a pilot went missing for several hours after a small propeller plane crash-landed in a central Kansas field. Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Ben Gardner says the plane went down around 3:30 p.m. Thursday in a rural area near the small town of Roxbury. The Federal Aviation Administration says wind caught the Maule M-5 and ...

8 years ago
Scheduled upgrades to the telephone system at the Salina Police Department will be made this weekend. According to Captain Paul Forrester, on Sunday March 5, 2017 at approximately 6am, the administrative telephone lines will be inoperable due to work on the phone systems. The upgrade will take about 30-minutes to complete. If immediate assistance is needed during that ...