11 years ago
The City of Salina in a special meeting Thursday afternoon moved a stop closer to cleaning up contamination at the Salina Regional Airport. City commissioners unanimously approved entering into a contract with the Dragun Corporation to put together a plan to begin the cleanup. Since 1999 local officials have been trying to get federal help in ...

11 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating after thieves remove a number of gates and posts from a field. Owners of a property in the 900 block of N. Tressin Road contacted authorities after realizing someone had stolen twelve 6-foot T-posts, ten security gates and two metal panels from a field northwest of Salina. Deputies say the ...

11 years ago
An intercepted package leads to a drug related arrest. Officers from the I 135 / I 70 Drug Task Force executed a search warrant after being alerted by the postal service about a possible drug delivery. Police say the postal inspector found about 2 pounds of marijuana in a box that was mailed from northern California to ...

11 years ago
A motorcycle is stolen from a business parking lot while the owner shopped. Salina police are investigating after a 1992 Harley Davidson motorcycle was stolen on Wednesday afternoon between 4:30pm and 4:45pm. The owner told police he was shopping inside Ace Hardware, 321 S. Broadway, and found out the bike missing just 15-minutes later. The Electra Glide tour ...

11 years ago
After most of the world’s population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might just depend on a few thousand people huddled in recreational vehicles deep in the bowels of an eastern Kansas mine. That’s the vision of a California man who is ...

11 years ago
Salina will celebrate Juneteenth this Saturday. A daylong celebration is planned at the Carver Center at 315 North 2nd Street. Multiple events are planned. Activities include: * A free pancake feed sponsored by the NAACP beginning at 8:00 in the morning * A North Salina walking tour leaves at 10:30 in the morning * Food Vendors will be set ...

11 years ago
Rolling Hills Zoo has lost a beloved snow leopard. According to the zoo, on Sunday Sari had to be euthanized as a result of kidney disease that was causing her body’s systems to fail. Sari was the 4th oldest snow leopard in North America. She had just turned 21 years of age at the end of ...

11 years ago
Topeka Police are searching for three missing children after they walked away from their home late Wednesday night. According to police, around 11:00pm last night, officers were called to the 1100 block of Southwest Orleans to meet with the parents of three missing children, who were last seen at home at approximately 9:00pm. They were discovered ...

11 years ago
Patients undergoing positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scans were introduced to new technology this week with the implementation of the Siemens Biograph mCT at Salina Regional Health Center’s Outpatient Imaging Center. The technology replaces a service that had been provided by a mobile unit and only available two days a week. The Biograph mCT offers some ...

11 years ago
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Community leaders are celebrating the opening of the first public natural gas fueling station for vehicles in Wichita. A ceremony marking the grand opening will be held Thursday at the facility at 2950 Ohio Street, just off Interstate 135 in north central Wichita. The event is being hosted by CNG Services, the company ...

11 years ago
With Kansas higher education officials reeling over cuts in state funding approved by legislators, the Board of Regents could press lawmakers to undo most of them next year. The regents plan to discuss budget issues Thursday. Their agenda included proposals for restoring most of the funding lawmakers cut for each of the next two fiscal years, ...