11 years ago
A Solomon woman is hurt in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 70 east of Salina Thursday morning. Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Ben Gardner told KSAL News at the scene that a Mercury Mountaineer SUV was headed east on I 70. The driver, 45-year-old Brenda McNair of Solomon, fell asleep. She veered across the passing lane into ...

11 years ago
An Abilene woman has received a special thank you for her contribution to the community. Kristine Fleming was selected to receive free fuel from Tanks of Thanks, a program that rewards people who do good deeds to help make their community just a little bit better. The Tanks of Thanks program from Cenex encourages people to ...

11 years ago
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday morring $877,500 in grant awards to support a new health center site in Kansas. The funds, made available by the Affordable Care Act, will help care for approximately 3,900 additional Kansans by establishing new health center service delivery sites. Nationwide, 236 health center ...

11 years ago
Hunters hitting the field this Saturday morning can fill up with pancakes and hot coffee at a benefit breakfast. Salina Boy Scout Troop 7 is planning an opening day pancake feed. The event will be from 6 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon at the VFW at 1108 West Crawford in Salina. The menu consists ...

11 years ago
Hydraulic fracturing in Kansas, or fracking, will be the topic of Kansas State University Salina's Civic Luncheon Lecture at noon Thursday, Nov. 14, in the College Center Conference Room. Rex Buchman, interim director of Kansas Geological Survey, will present "Hydraulic Fracturing in Kansas: The Process and the Challenges." The lecture will be an informative, fact-filled presentation ...

11 years ago
Kansas pheasant hunters aren't likely to see many of the birds when the season begins this weekend. State wildlife experts say drought during most of the nesting and brooding season, combined with an already low breeding populations, will make it difficult to find birds this season, which begins Saturday. Kurt Hudson, Kansas natural resource officer, ...

11 years ago
Westar Energy plans to purchase 200 megawatts of electricity from a northern Oklahoma wind farm expected to begin operating in late 2016. The Topeka-based utility announced Wednesday that it had reached purchase agreement with Virginia-based Apex Clean Energy. Westar already has about 700 megawatts of electricity from renewable resources. Apex plans to start building the 18,000-acre wind farm ...

11 years ago
Hundreds of volunteers from small towns across Kansas have been helping can pork to send to needy people in the U.S. and a dozen countries around the world. A recent two-day meat-canning marathon in Reno County was part of a national Mennonite effort. It started in October in Ohio and will conclude in April in Ontario, ...

11 years ago
Legislators are getting a lesson in the Kansas school finance formula as they open two days of hearings reviewing how public education is funded. The meetings Wednesday and Thursday by a special education committee started with a primer on how the state's formula distributes more than $3 billion in state aid to 286 school districts. Discussions ...

11 years ago
Kansas officials have slightly reduced their projections for state revenues during the current fiscal year. But acting Budget Director Jon Hummel said Wednesday the state will still be able to sustain the spending in the budget for both the current fiscal year and the one that begins in July 2014. Fiscal forecasters said the state should collect ...

11 years ago
The J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation has awarded a $750,000 challenge grant to Kansas Wesleyan University toward the construction of its on-campus, multi-faceted Sports Complex. The grant will help the university reach its fundraising goal of $7.5 million for the construction of the facility. The state-of-the-art, fan-friendly complex, scheduled to open in fall 2014, will ...