3 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan’s Pioneer Hall was named to the National Register of Historic Places earlier this month. According to KWU, Pioneer Hall becomes the 19th location in Saline County to earn the recognition, joining such places as the former post office building (now the Smoky Hill Museum), the Fox-Watson Theatre (now the Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts) ...

3 years ago
One person was transported to the hospital in Salina following a single-vehicle crash involving a tanker truck. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a HEMTT fuel servicing truck was headed east on Water Well Road. The driver missed a turn and attempted to turn around, backing up into a field. The truck got stuck and rolled ...

3 years ago
Salina Regional Health Center has been re-verified as a Level III Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons. According to the hospital, trauma centers verified by the ACS must undergo a lengthy review every three years to insure standards for optimal care of injured patients are being met. The ACS verification program looks at all ...

3 years ago
Salina Police are seeking tips in an ident theft case. The case is the latest Salina Crime Stoppers crime of the week. Police say 0n January 18th they received a report of an identity theft at Dillon’s, 1235 E. Cloud. The victim learned a check had been cashed at the business in her name without her ...

3 years ago
First responders rescued two men whose boat capsized in an area lake early Saturday morning. According to the Reno County Emergency Management, at 6:02AM Reno County Fire District 9 was dispatched to a boat that capsized on Cheney Lake while hunting. The agency says two male occupants and their dog were clinging to the side of ...

3 years ago
A Salina man was awakened by an explosion on his front porch. According to Police Captain Paul Forrester, just before midnight on Thursday, a 29-year-old male was asleep inside his residence in the 500 block of College Ave. when a loud explosion broke the glass on his front porch light and cracked the drywall inside his ...

3 years ago
Police are investigating a business burglary after someone tried to enter a Salina sports memorabilia store through the roof. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that at 11:45pm Wednesday night, an alarm alerted the owner of The Arena at 427 Broadway to a break-in. He told investigators that he checked the building's exterior and saw ...

3 years ago
A Saline County woman was able to rescue her dogs and move her car out of a burning garage without injury. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that on Thursday afternoon, 74-year-old Nancy Greene smelled smoke from her kitchen and then discovered an active fire in the attached garage at her home in the ...

3 years ago
In conjunction with the biggest weekends of football games of the year, Salina’s biggest weekend efforts of the year to gather food for the hungry are here. The 2023 "Souper Bowl of Hope" kicks off this weekend. The 2023 Salina “Souper Bowl of Hope” is trying to collect 57,000 cans of soup by Super Bowl Sunday ...

3 years ago
 The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks caught a real whopper of a fish this week. A biologist caught an 80-pound catfish in the Kansas River. According to the agency, invasive species biologists have been sampling on the Kansas River to remove invasive carp including Bighead and Silver Carp this winter. While out on the river ...

3 years ago
It's been a big week for the Dickinson County community of Abilene. The historic town was notified it was being honored with a couple of different tourism-related awards. According to the Abilene Convention and Visitors Bureau, True West Magazine named Abilene one of the Top 10 True Western Towns of the Year in its February/March issue, ...