Assaria, Kansas

Last year, Gypsum farmer Mike Jensen experienced a miracle: his 15-year-old son, Joshua, survived a brain tumor.

Older folks living in Saline County had no official organization of their own 40 years ago this month when Edna Kvacik and Irene Dauer began knocking on doors in around Falun.

After eyeing several smaller, round pumpkins, 4-year-old Iris Denton-DeVore stopped in front of one and hollered, "I found my pumpkin.

Crisp fall days and October-blue skies are best enjoyed outside, and what better excuse than pumpkin shopping? The region has many sites with fledgling jack-o'-lanterns and much, much more.

Charisse Nurnberg and her husband, Grant, own Sunny Side Pumpkin Patch near Assaria, where they grow about five acres of pumpkins.

An Assaria man was injured near Marion on Friday morning when his pickup truck was struck by a semitrailer.

The Fall Festival Luau at Assaria begins at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 6 with a kids' pedal power tractor pull.

Rachel Fahrenthold had an unusual strategy for succeeding in the open class horse show speed events at the Tri-Rivers Fair on Saturday -- horse embarrassment.

Before Faith Wolf ever sticks a pin through a bug, she'll soak a cotton ball in nail polish remover and then place the saturated ball in the bug's container.

To Eric Blomquist, the Tri-Rivers Fair is a step back in time. "It's a place you can see huge garden and horticulture displays, quilts, art and photography, all kinds of homemade foods, a carnival, a parade, ...

Patrick M. Hull, 48, Assaria, and Rhonda D. Hull, 52, Salina; Omar Picaso, 27, and Erika Luna, 28, both of Salina; Robert E. Wyman, 28, and Amanda L. Crable, 28, both of Salina; Nicholas M. Ngugi, 31, and ...

The Kansas Walleye Association tournament in late June at El Dorado Lake was postponed until July 12 at Melvern Lake.

The Kansas Walleye Association tournament in late June at El Dorado Lake was postponed until July 12 at Melvern Lake.

"Put the header up, put the header up," Kirk Heimer kept saying as he watched his sister Kaylee maneuver the big John Deere combine around the field just northwest of Minneapolis.

It could have been worse. Ben and Cary Bahora had heard about the dire predictions for severe weather on Thursday, and they were in Saline County, at the intersection of Interstate Highway 70 and Niles Road ...

Safe Kids Kansas offers water watcher card to promote active supervision to safeguard kids in and around water Topeka, KS - infoZine - As pools open across the state, Safe Kids Kansas is offering a free tool to ...

The Youth GrantMakers Council of the Greater Salina Community Foundation has awarded six grants totaling $5,600. The grants are: n $1,600 to Sam McCary to teach students about the weather, the atmosphere and ...

"The mother evidently said it wasn't (moving too fast) and she got out, hitting her head on the pavement"

' Lori Baxter, 43, Smolan, was in fair condition Monday morning at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, after she stepped out of moving car Saturday and hit her head on the pavement. via Salina Journal

"Now most of the time, she's sitting on the kittens."

Some presidential candidates may think it takes a village to raise a child, but most animal moms do just fine solo. via Salina Journal