9 years ago
Four sun-soaked days led to another well attended Smoky Hill River Festival in Salina's Oakdale Park. As crews were packing gear and striking tents late Sunday, Brad Anderson, Executive Director of Salina Arts and Humanities was still smiling about the weather, "That's the first time in six years we weren't dodging thunder storms and rain," he ...

9 years ago
The body of a man who went missing back in late May was found late Sunday afternoon. Family members confirm to KSAL News that a body discovered on the Solomon River in Ottawa County is that of 37-year-old Nathan Lancaster. The body was found by a man, who after detecting a strong smell on his farm, ...

9 years ago
A rally to support Salina USD 305 educators is planned. Organizers tell KSAL News that the public is invited  to the event, which will be held on Monday, June 20th at Indian Rock Park across the street from the board of education offices. Multiple events and activities are planned as part of the event. They include: ...

9 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas farmers have begun harvesting what appears to be a bountiful wheat crop. More bushels coming in from this year's harvest will help ease some of the sting from wheat prices that have plunged roughly 53 percent since peaking at $7.77 a bushel during the 2012 drought. The Agriculture Department reported Friday that ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt wants the state Supreme Court to rescind its warning that the state's schools may close if the Legislature doesn't fix funding inequities. The high court found the state's school funding system unconstitutional in February and set a June 30 deadline for the Legislature to correct it. A ...

9 years ago
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) - The University of Kansas plans to begin offering classes in Leavenworth. The decision was announced Thursday at a meeting of the Leavenworth County Development Corporation, with has been working with the university to find sites in Leavenworth for the classes. The Leavenworth Timers reports the classes are designed to accommodate military personnel at ...

9 years ago
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) - Federal prosecutors allege a former guard at the Leavenworth penitentiary took bribes to smuggle tobacco into the prison. Marc Buckner, of Kansas City, Kansas, was indicted Wednesday on one count of accepting bribes. Buckner allegedly received more than $200,000 in bribes while he worked at the prison from 2005 to 2014. The U.S. ...

9 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A federal appeals court says Kansas cannot prevent thousands of eligible voters from casting ballots in the November federal election because they didn't prove their U.S. citizenship when registering to vote at motor vehicle offices. Friday's ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily upholds a federal judge's order that ...

9 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas wildlife officials say it will take weeks and perhaps months to determine why 30 federally protected egrets turned up dead in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism is trying to pinpoint what killed the birds last week in a residential area. As the department's ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Republicans returning to the Statehouse June 23 for a special session to discuss school funding say they plan to quickly resolve the issue to avoid school closures on July 1. The state's Supreme Court ruled last month that the Legislature's proposal for distributing more than $4 billion a year in aid ...

9 years ago
PRATT, Kan. (AP) - A portion of the Arkansas River in Kansas is now part of the National Park's Service National Water Trail system. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism says the 192-mile stretch of the Arkansas River from Great Bend to the Oklahoma border southeast of Arkansas City was named a National Water ...