11 years ago
Westar Energy is proposing raising the rates on residential and small business customers and lowering the rates for large businesses. Small businesses would pay 6 to 9 percent more under Westar Energy's latest plan. Big businesses that buy lots of power would pay 6 to 15 percent less. Westar officials say industrial users and other large-volume customers ...

11 years ago
Multiple grass fires have closed a road near the south-central Kansas town of Partridge. The fires were burning Saturday between Partridge and Abbyville. The Hutchinson News reports that some of the fires have threatened homes, but no structures have burned. No one is injured.

11 years ago
A second suspect in a marijuana bust at a northeast Kansas airport has pleaded guilty. Colorado resident Lance Thompson was one of five people arrested in April when a small airplane from Colorado carrying about 42 pounds of marijuana landed at Amelia Earhart Airport in Atchison. Some of the suspects were on the plane, the others ...

11 years ago
Anyone inclined to grumble about mowing the lawn in the steamy Kansas heat might consider the example of the Kent Winter family. The Wichita Eagle reports the family of 10 - parents Kent and Susan and their eight children - have been working from sunrise until late at night to bring in their wheat crop. They grow ...

11 years ago
Harvest in the KSAL listening area is in full swing. Friday, KSAL's Friendly Fire broadcast live from Cargill Ag Horizons just west of Salina.

11 years ago
The Kansas Wesleyan University Cheer & Dance teams will host a car was this weekend. According to the school, the event will be at Ace Hardware on Broadway on Saturday from 10-2. The carwash is free, but donations will be accepted. All donations will go towards camp and competitions. The Kansas Wesleyan Cheer Squad won the 2013 KCAC ...

11 years ago
A Salina man was shot this morning at the Howard Johnson Inn located at 222 E Diamond Dr. Police say that the victim had no connection to the shooter prior to the incident. He was sent to the hospital between 4 and 5 this morning with a wound in the lower right abdomen. The bullet missed any ...

11 years ago
The late state Rep. Bob Bethell had a passion for finding antiques and built a large collection during his lifetime. Bethell accumulated so many antiques that he built a large garage near his home in Alden and planned an adjoining room to hold more. But Bethell died in a car accident in May 2012 before the ...

11 years ago
DS&O Electric Cooperative, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and First Bank Kansas of Salina have made a $1,000,000 interest-free loan available to Bethany Home for the construction of its new assisted living facility on East Swensson Street, between the Subway Restaurant and the First Baptist Church in Lindsborg. The 10-year loan completes the $2.5 million financing ...

11 years ago
A scientific breakthrough could help fight a deadly wheat pathogen that's causing significant crop losses. Researchers from Kansas State University and the University of California-Davis have identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to one of the most deadly strains of the wheat stem rust pathogen. The rust strain first was identified in Uganda in 1999 ...

11 years ago
Thousands of residents in south central Kansas remain without power after storms swept through the region, downing trees and power lines. Most of the damage from Thursday's storms was reported near Wichita, where about 13,000 customers remained without power early Friday, down from a peak of about 21,000. The utility said it hoped to have power ...