1 year ago
Millions of travelers are out and about ahead of the Independence Day holiday. AAA Kansas  predicts that a record 60-million people will be traveling by car over the holidays, which is nearly three-million more than last year. Overall, the agency projects 70.9 million travelers will head 50 miles or more from home over the Independence Day holiday ...

1 year ago
Salina is set to let freedom ring, beginning with an old fashioned celebration in the park and ending with a spectacular fireworks display. Independence Day will begin with the All-American 4th of July / Play Day in the Park, and will end with the Skyfire fireworks display. Oakdale Park will be the place to be to get ...

1 year ago
A small community on the Dickinson / Morris County line which lost its hospital in October of last year again has a place to go for healthcare. Abilene-based Memorial Health System has built a clinic in Herington. Heartland Health Care Clinic - Herington celebrated a grand opening late last week. Among other things, the clinic has four exam ...

1 year ago
A downtown Salina restaurant and bar will soon undergo major changes. The Prickly Pear Grill & Cantina, a Tex-Mex eating and entertainment venue which opened in August 2022, will be transitioning to a new ownership group and concept, Jose Pepper's.  The change is expected to be complete by this fall.  "As downtown Salina continues its revitalization, we ...

1 year ago
Authorities are searching for an armed man who robbed a Salina convenience store clerk at gunpoint. Police Captain Kyle Tonniges tells KSAL News that just before midnight on Sunday night a man wearing a black mask entered the Kwik Shop at 657 Fairdale, pointed a gun at the male clerk and demanded cash from the store. The ...

1 year ago
The Kansas Department of Transportation has closed the McPherson County rest area on Northbound I-135 at mile marker 68 for plumbing repairs. The rest area will remain closed until the plumbing repairs are completed, with an estimated reopening in one to two weeks.

1 year ago
A driver caught speeding is now facing charges for DUI plus flee and elude. Saline County Undersheriff Brent Melander tells KSAL News that 23-year-old Curtis Frisbie was arrested early Sunday after a deputy clocked him driving 70mph in a 40mph zone near 9th and Prescott. Deputies say he led authorities on a chase in his 2003 GMC ...

1 year ago
A Salina woman is in jail after making threats at a park Saturday morning. Police Captain Kyle Tonniges tells KSAL News that around 11am officers were sent to Hawthorne Park on N. 9th after an intoxicated woman began shouting threats aimed at two men and two women who were nearby. Witnesses told police she made verbal threats ...

1 year ago
A Salina man is facing a number of charges after he allegedly drove off from an attempted traffic stop. According to Saline County Undersheriff Brent Melander, authorities arrested 25-year-old Trenton Ponting during the early morning hours of Saturday. Deputies say Ponting sped away as the officer approached his vehicle on foot near the intersection of Crawford and ...

1 year ago
Kansans will awake to a new statutory landscape Monday after contents of 101 bills approved by the Legislature and, mostly, signed into law by Gov. Laura Kelly officially take effect. With turning of the calendar at 12:01 a.m. July 1, incarcerated juveniles in Kansas could be granted work release. Microbreweries would be able to self-distribute beer ...

1 year ago
A North Salina community block party event which was revived last year after nearly a half-century is growing this year, and will include an all-star basketball game featuring among others a former Harlem Globetrotter. In the late 1960 and early 1970s there was an event in Salina called "Daddy Bud Day", where John "Daddy Bud" Curtis, ...