10 years ago
A rural Saline County Community has a special event planned this Friday and Saturday, with a goal of putting the finishing touches on a community park. Volunteers will gather for a "community build" in Assaria to help construct playground equipment at the Assaria Community Park. Volunteers have been steadily renovating the park. When the project began the ...

10 years ago
After clearing some federal hurdles with the TSA essential air service returned to Salina this week. Tim Rogers Executive Director at Salina Airport Authority joined in on the KSAL Morning News with a smile. "It took awhile. It took great effort and almost literally an act of Congress to get Salina up and approved for federalization so ...

10 years ago
The president and CEO of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce is telling legislators that they're not required to increase spending to satisfy the state Supreme Court's latest ruling on education funding. Chamber CEO Mike O'Neal testified Thursday that legislators could direct the State Department of Education to shift unused funds among school districts to cover additional ...

10 years ago
Police are looking for someone who stole a white, 1996 Chevy Lumina that was taken from a parking lot in the 600 block of S. 3rd sometime between Monday and Wednesday. The car is valued at $600 and has a Kansas Disabled tag - 73694. Police arrested 24-year-old Rex C. Vaughn on Wednesday for criminal use ...

10 years ago
High winds are blamed for causing a freak accident that injured a Salina man. Deputies from the Saline County Sheriff's Office responded to Woodward Road near Crawford Street around 6:15pm Wednesday evening. Deputies report that during a quick moving thunderstorm, gusting winds snapped a power line pole. The broken pole then swung like pool cue stick and shattered ...

10 years ago
An elderly Saline County woman contacted the Sheriff's Office Wednesday after having a conversation on the phone with a scam artist. She told Sheriff Glen Kochanowski that the caller said he was an FBI agent and needed the woman to send him $4,300 to pay for her grandson's bail who was being held at the jail. The ...

10 years ago
Kansas will start giving away nicotine gum, lozenges and patches next week to help smokers drop the habit. The effort will last from June 20 to July 1, or while supplies last. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is distributing the nicotine replacement products. To participate, smokers can call the state's Tobacco Quitline. They also must ...

10 years ago
A cancer diagnosis is not a death sentence. Major advances in cancer prevention, early detection and treatment have resulted in longer survival. Today, nearly 14.5 million Americans are living with and beyond a cancer diagnosis. In recognition of this, the Tammy Walker Cancer Center at Salina Regional Health Center is holding a free National Cancer Survivor’s ...

10 years ago
Hot and dry weather has more and more Kansas farmers climbing into combines to bring in the 2016 winter wheat crop. "We've kicked off and it's early in the 1st quarter," said Tom Maxwell, Extension Agent with Kansas State University. Maxwell stopped into the KSAL Morning News with a look from the starting line of this year's ...

10 years ago
Health care analysts say Gov. Sam Brownback's decision to cut money for Medicaid health coverage for the needy, disabled and elderly will add to the problems some hospitals are facing. The Wichita Eagle reports that the 4 percent budget-balancing Medicaid reimbursement cut takes effect July 1. Health care providers already had been raising concerns that the state's ...

10 years ago
Salina Police intercept a woman on her way to send $5,000 to a scam artist who had already cheated her out of $15,000. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that police were contacted by a family member of a woman in her 50's who had been convinced by a scammer that she had done something criminally ...