4 years ago
A Kansas lawmaker is trying to increase the state's minimum wage. Democratic State Senator Ethan Corson of Fairway's proposal calls for raising the state's current minimum wage of seven-dollars-and-25-cents per hour to ten-dollars per hour by the end of the year. The state minimum wage would then rise by two-dollars each year before it caps at 16-dollars ...

4 years ago
There have been no new COVID deaths in Saline County since Friday and 17 new COVID cases. According to the Saline County Health Department, there are currently 226 active cases in the community. Salina Regional Health Center reports that 17 patients require hospitalization related to COVID-19. There have been 204 COVID related deaths overall. The Saline County Health Department ...

4 years ago
A Salina area native is joining the staff at Salina's KU School of Nursing. According to the University of Kansas, Karen Weis, Ph.D., has been appointed the Christine A. Hartley Rural Health Nursing Endowed Professor at the University of Kansas School of Nursing-Salina. She also will be the director of research at the newly created Kansas ...

4 years ago
Comic Con is coming back. Salina’s popular Comic Con will return this summer. Organizers said via social media it's official. Salina Comic Con returns to the Tony’s Pizza Events Center over the weekend of July 16th and 17th. In the past this event included vendors who want to buy, sell, and trade comic books, toys and pop ...

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A quartet of local jazz players – three of whom are KWU faculty – will join with a special guest vocalist to entertain all comers Monday, Feb. 21 in KWU’s Sams Chapel. The event gets underway at 7:30 p.m. and admission is free. Known collectively as Sharp Eleven, the group is comprised of Dr. James McAllister ...

4 years ago
Republican Clarke Sanders has filed for re-election to the Kansas House in the 69th District. Sanders filled out the paperwork and paid the $120 filing fee this past Thursday in the Secretary of State's office in Topeka. "It has been a great honor to serve the people of Salina and Kansas since January of 2021 and I ...

4 years ago
A Salina man has been charged with driving under the influence after a single-vehicle accident Sunday morning. Aaron Powers, 24, was driving his white 1998 Chevrolet S-10 truck eastbound on I-70 near mile marker 257 when he lost control and left the roadway at 3:10 a.m. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that the ...

4 years ago
No injuries are reported after shots were fired in a Salina neighborhood on Saturday. Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that at approximately 2:20 a.m., officers were dispatched to the area of State and Chicago Streets in regards to shots fired. It was reported by witnesses that there was a loud party in the neighborhood, ...

4 years ago
A house being built in Salina was stolen from over the course of last Thursday night. Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that the burglary happened in the 2700 block of Wet Stone last week. A 43-year-old Salina man reported the theft of tools from a construction site. The victim believes entry was made through a ...

4 years ago
The history of Valentine's day is most credibly rooted in Rome during the third century. The city was under the rule of Emperor Claudius the second, who thrived on war. His troops, especially the men who were married, grew tired of the fighting and refused to continue. To keep from losing his army, Emperor Claudius ...

4 years ago
A pedestrian was fortunate to suffer only minor injuries after being hit by a car in south Salina late Sunday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2010 KIA Soul was headed west in the 300 block of West Schilling Road when a a pedestrian entered the road. The car struck the pedestrian. The pedestrian, identified ...