11 years ago
A Republican Kansas lawmaker is questioning if it was legal for a representative of the Unified Government of Kansas City and Wyandotte County to testify on a gun bill. State Rep. Brett Hildabrand says he thinks Mike Taylor, a lobbyist for the Unified Government of Kansas City, may have broken the law by testifying Friday ...

11 years ago
Bird watchers around the state can participate in two essential studies on winter bird populations simply by keeping a watchful eye. According to the Kansas Deparment of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism the first study is going on right now, through Sunday. The Kansas Winter Bird Feeder Survey will be followed by the 2014 Great Backyard Bird ...

11 years ago
Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt believes Kansas City could pull off hosting a Super Bowl after the NFL decided to bring its marquee game to a cold-weather venue this season. That doesn't mean he expects it to happen anytime soon. Speaking to reporters in New York ahead of Sunday's game between Denver and Seattle, Hunt said that the ...

11 years ago
A winter storm system that brought sleet and snow to parts of Kansas is a prelude to expected multiple days of accumulating snow over the next week. A mix of sleet and snow fell over a large part of Kansas Friday into Saturday. According to National Weather Service preliminary reports, some of the heaviest snow in Central ...

11 years ago
The new State Senator in the 35th District of Kansas is Clark Shultz. The 35th District is comprised of all of McPherson County and portions of six other Central Kansas counties. Until recently, it had been represented for several years by Jay Emler. Emler resigned the seat to take an appointment by Governor Sam Brownback to ...

11 years ago
A Junction City man was sentenced to one year of probation for killing his girlfriend's cat by stuffing cigarettes and cotton swabs down its throat. William Lemieux Jr., who had pleaded no contest to animal cruelty in November, was sentenced Friday in Geary County District Court. Lemieux also was ordered to pay costs and not to contact ...

11 years ago
A new report from the U.S. State Department on the Keystone XL pipeline has drawn varying reactions in Kansas, where a separate section of the Keystone pipeline is operating. The State Department on Friday raised no major environmental objections to the $7 billion pipeline from Canada, though the report stops short of recommending its approval. ...

11 years ago
The 25th Annual Caps Celebrity Benefit Auction is Saturday - Executive Director Carolee Jones tells KSAL News the spotlight shines on local donors, "It was much easier to get celebrity stuff by contacting them directly twenty years ago," she said. "That's gone by the wayside, now we've got great local donors that provide most of our ...

11 years ago
A Wichita high school assistant basketball coach has been suspended amid allegations by parents that he bullied their children. Lance Deckinger, athletic director of Northwest High School, told The Wichita Eagle that assistant coach Carl Caldwell is indefinitely suspended while Northwest investigates concerns about him. Deckinger says those concerns are confidential because they involve a ...

11 years ago
A Clyde resident says he plans to run as a Republican against incumbent Congressman Tim Huelskamp. Alan LaPolice, who grew up on a dairy farm in north-central Kansas, plans to kick off his campaign for the 1st Congressional District on Feb. 22 in Concordia. Huelskamp, also a Republican, won the seat in the strongly GOP U.S. ...

11 years ago
Rolling Hills Zoo is one of a half-dozen organizations to receive state tourism grant money. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism has awarded Attraction Development Grants totaling $83,520 to six Kansas organizations. According to the agency, the following organizations are receiving funding: * Rolling Hills Zoo, Salina, will receive $20,000 to help market “REPTILES: The ...