8 years ago
A senior whose involvement in the community for the betterment of others has been selected as the 2016 Saline County Senior Honoree by the Saline County Commission on Aging (COA) Board of Directors. Salinan George Cardinal will be honored along with Senior Honorees from other counties during the annual Sunflower Fair next week. Organized by the ...

8 years ago
As the temperatures begin to cool, it is time to to fall in love with the outdoors again and hit the trails running, biking or walking. Lindsborg offers three distinct variations of trails to choose from so there are options for everyone! The Välkommen Trail is a concrete trail meandering through our beautiful city, and is ...

8 years ago
The Oklahoma Geological Survey has announced the hiring of a new state seismologist to help study the increase in earthquakes linked to oil and gas wastewater disposal. Survey Director Jeremy Boak announced Friday that Jacob Walter will assume the post in November. Walter is a research associate at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of ...

8 years ago
  The Abilene Cowboys improved to (3-0) on the season with a 25-7 victory over Andover Central. In the process they got revenge against a Jaguar team that knocked them out of the playoffs last year in the quarter finals by a single point. Andover Central was short-handed as they were without their starting senior quarterback Taylor ...

8 years ago
Police are investigating a possible inappropriate relationship between a teacher and student at Ellsworth High School. KWCH in Wichita reports that Police Chief Emil Halfhill identified the teacher as Brent Schneider. The student was not identified. Halfhill told the TV station that police met with school district officials at 11 a.m. about the investigation. Investigators have also spoken ...

8 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a trooper shot a man who was armed with a machete in northwest Kansas. The patrol was notified early Friday that a man standing near a vehicle on Interstate 70 in Sherman County was armed with a baseball bat or machete. A trooper found a vehicle stopped in the middle of the ...

8 years ago
Three phases will lead to a more vital fishing lake at Lakewood Park in Salina. Brian Underwood is Supervisor of Natural Resources at Lakewood Discovery Center and says the process is already underway, "Right now you can catch as many kind of fish as you want in any means that is still within legal fishing, and ...

8 years ago
The Drug Task Force makes two arrests following the search of a Salina home. Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 23-year-old Tray A. Eisenman and 18-year-old Claire I. Base were taken into custody on Thursday morning following the search of a home located at 1515 E. Iron. Police acquired a search warrant after Eisenman allegedly ...

8 years ago
A farmer discing a field in southern Saline County was not hurt after knocking down a pole and several power lines on Thursday. The Saline County Sheriff's Office reports that 74-year-old Harvey Weis of Lindsborg was discing a corn field in the 1100 block of S. Centennial Road and hit a Westar power pole with the ...

8 years ago
On the same day that Carly Fiorina's support of Donald Trump is making news, the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce announced that Fiorina is coming to Salina to speak. Fiorina is the former Chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a best-selling author, and was challenger for the 2016 Republican Presidential Nomination. She will be the featured speaker ...

8 years ago
Three small earthquakes shook parts of north central Kansas late Thursday night into early Friday. According to the  U.S. Geological Survey, there were three earthquakes north of Ellis within about a three hour span, beginning at 9:58 PM. The following earthquakes were reported: 3.3 magnitude 9.3 miles north of Ellis 3.1 magnitude 8 miles north of ...