8 years ago
Free screenings for skin and prostate cancer will be held next week. According to Salina Regional Health Center, screenings will be available from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Tammy Walker Cancer Center. Appointments for the event are required and can be made by calling (785) 452-4848. Space is limited. Skin cancer is the ...

8 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is among 150 agencies mobilizing for the Labor Day Weekend driving period. According to the agency, citizens are warned that during the period, Aug. 16 through Labor Day, Sept. 3, they will join 150 other local and state police agencies across Kansas in a crackdown aimed at removing drunk and other ...

8 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's lead over Gov. Jeff Colyer in the Republican primary has been cut in half. Because of an election day clerical error, the lead is now 91 votes instead of 191. Election officials discovered the mistake in the listing of Thomas County's results in the state's tally of votes. The final, unofficial ...

8 years ago
A national animal rights organization has responded to a local Saline County incident. Earlier this week a truck hauling cattle crashed in rural Saline County. On Tuesday afternoon a semi hauling 65 head of cattle crashed in a ditch southeast of Salina. As the driver reached  for something a couple of wheels dropped off the road, ...

8 years ago
A Wichita woman is dead after her vehicle slid off a Colorado cliff. Chaffee County, Colorado officials say 43-year-old Jennifer Orr was driving in a caravan of vehicles Tuesday when her Jeep went off the road and fell 600 feet down a slope. Orr died at the scene, and her daughter was airlifted to a hospital. Authorities say ...

8 years ago
Six members of a Kansas State University engineering creative design team, including a Salina student, have won an award at an international competition. According to the school, the KSU Fountain Wars Team  brought home third-place honors. It's the seventh time in past eight years a team from Kansas State University has finished in the top three in the ...

8 years ago
A teenage driver was cited for failure to yield after an injury accident involving a car and motorcycle on Wednesday evening. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 61-year-old Kenneth Van Auken and his passenger, 59-year-old Tracy Van Auken were both transported to Salina Regional Health Center by EMS after their motorcycle struck a car ...

8 years ago
Kansas juniors will be able to take the ACT test and WorkKeys assessment for free during the 2018-2019 school year, the Kansas State Department of Education announced this week. Kansas joins 18 other state education agencies currently providing the ACT for students. The ACT test, introduced in 1959, gauges a student’s readiness for success in the first ...

8 years ago
Staff members from Rocking M Media Salina radio stations have been honored by the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. The association announced its 2018 KAB Awards of Excellence on Wednesday. Salina staff have been honored with five awards. The awards include: Special Program 1st Place Clarke Sanders / Todd Pittenger / Jared Base KSAL - "Smoky Hill River Festival ...

8 years ago
Kansas Senator Jerry Moran made a stop in Salina Wednesday for a town hall event which was dominated by talk about trade, and a trade war which he believes could potentially put some Kansas farmers out of business. The event, hosted by Americans For Prosperity Kansas, was focused on trade and why trade between nations matters. Moran ...

8 years ago
Salina USD 305 teachers have returned to the classroom. While teachers new to the district began orientation a couple of days ago, returning teachers joined them Wednesday. All of the teachers in the district gathered at Central High School to begin the new year. They were welcomed back by Interim Superintendent Dr. James Hardy, and by ...