6 years ago
An Ellsworth woman was killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 63-year-old Janice Perkins was driving a 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee headed north on a rural road. For an unknown reason she went off the road. As she  over corrected, the SUV slid sideways into a ditch and rolled. The Jeep ...

6 years ago
The state has launched a new jobs website, connecting job seekers with Kansas businesses hiring to fill urgent needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Kansas Department of Commerce, the COVID-19 jobs site, kansasworks.com/coronavirus, allows employers from essential industries to quickly and easily post critical positions that need to be filled to support activities related to ...

6 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt and U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister are teaming up to fight fraud related to the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak. According to the Kansas Attorney Generals' office, a state-federal partnership has formed to investigate and prosecute scammers attempting to prey on Kansans during the COVID-19 outbreak. Coordinating information and manpower will allow the agencies to ...

6 years ago
The Saline County Health Department has been notified of two additional positive cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Saline County. The positive cases were identified through testing sent to a private lab and to the KDHE lab. One case is a female in her 60s. The other case is a male in his 60s. These cases are ...

6 years ago
Ten people in Kansas have died due to complications with COVID-19 Coronavirus. That's according to the Kansas Department of Health & Environment who updated the COVID-19 cases in the state at 10 a.m. Wednesday. The latest updates say that there are 484 cases of COVID-19 in Kansas with 10 deaths. However, the KDHE says that of those ...

6 years ago
UPDATE: The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Leavenworth County Health Department are conducting a joint medical investigation into the COVID-19 cases identified at Lansing Correctional Facility. On March 31, the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) announced three staff members tested positive for COVID-19. KDHE is conducting the tracing and investigation within the facility ...

6 years ago
The State of Kansas closed March with total tax collections at $523.4 million; 1.6% or $8.6 million below the estimate. That is 0.3% or $1.4 million more than March of Fiscal Year 2019. Individual income tax collections were $247.3 million; $4.3 million more than the estimate and 7.1% more than last March. Corporate income tax collections ...

6 years ago
Salina Police are asking the public's help in locating a stolen BMX bicycle. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that the bike was stolen from the 900 block of Maple between March 10 and March 17. Daniel Ortiz, 20, Salina, reports that someone entered his residence through an open window on the north side of ...

6 years ago
The Salina Area United Way continues to see support in their efforts to raise funds for the SAUW COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund. The fund, which was started on March 23rd, has already surpassed $53,000. The United Way says with many donations from individuals, John & Karen Mize Charitable Fund, Kent Johnson, Christina Litwiller, Larry & Shirley Day, ...

6 years ago
Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus is expanding its aviation offerings to include an online bachelor's degree geared for students who have previously earned aviation-related certificates, ratings, licensures or college credit. This spring, a Bachelor of Science in aeronautical technology with a professional aviation option has launched at Kansas State Polytechnic. The online program combines a business ...

6 years ago
Circumstances surrounding the COVIS-19 Coronavirus Pandemic have many small businesses struggling to survive.  A Salina dance school is using a little ingenuity to keep offering classes. Tamara Howe School of Dance has premiered  THSD Online. The school tells KSAL News classes began on Monday March 23rd in all genres of dance for ages 2 and up. In ...