4 years ago
A good old fashioned Halloween themed event is planned for this coming Saturday. The Smoky Hills Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary will host an outdoor fall-festival type of event at their Audubon Sanctuary located at 2700 West Stimmel Road. The organization tells KSAL News they will have tables set up for pumpkin carving, participants bring your own pumpkin.  ...

4 years ago
An upcoming event in Salina will raise funding and awareness for a program which sends veterans to Washington DC to visit memorials in their honor. A Kansas Honor Flight Supper is planned for Friday, October 29th. The Kansas Honor Flight organization's mission is to transport veterans to our nation's capitol to visit the memorials at no cost ...

4 years ago
A group of seven former Salina City Commissioners and Mayors have signed off on a statement urging voters to vote "no" on a ballot question in the upcoming general election. The proposed ordinance would limit the commission's ability to enact public health  legislation during a state of emergency, social distancing and limiting crowd sizes, mask ...

4 years ago
The Salina Police Department is among 10 agencies across the state which will share $839,491 in Department of Justice grants to support Kansas law enforcement. According to U.S. Senator Jerry Moran's Office, these grants will be dispersed to 10 communities across Kansas. “As crime rates are increasing, these grants will fund the purchase of new equipment, development ...

4 years ago
With the coldest air of the season so far, an overnight low in Salina early Saturday morning of 34 degrees, there was some patchy frost around the area. According to the National Weather Service, frost occurs when there is a solid deposition of water vapor from the air. Frost will form when solid surfaces are cooled ...

4 years ago
November 13 marks the opening day for Kansas’ regular quail and pheasant seasons, and September 15 marked the opening day of Kansas’ regular greater prairie chicken season – the trifecta that is upland hunting in the Sunflower State. According to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, hunters will be pleased to hear that for 2021, the ...

4 years ago
With flu season fast approaching, a panel of education and health care advocates are touting the effect school masking policies have had on an apparent decrease in outbreaks in the classroom. Despite adding 10 new school clusters, the number of active outbreaks has dropped from 68 last week to 56 this week. The Kansas Department of ...

4 years ago
Kansas residents are going to see higher natural gas bills this winter. Industry officials say wholesale prices are currently twice what they were at this point last year, an increase that will be passed on to energy customers this winter. Meanwhile, Kansas Gas Service customers reportedly are being charged $5.67 per thousand cubic feet of gas used. ...

4 years ago
With peak season just beginning, there have already been crashes reported involving deer and vehicles, including two in the area involving motorcycles. A Salina man was badly injured earlier this week when he his motorcycle crashed into a deer, and a couple of weeks ago there was a similar motorcycle vs deer crash in Barton County. Deer ...

4 years ago
There has been one new COVID death in Saline County since Wednesday and 40 new cases of the virus. According to the Saline County Health Department there are currently 427 active cases of the virus in the community. Salina Regional Health Center reports they have 8 patients in the hospital battling the virus. Overall, 155 people have now ...

4 years ago
It's a showcase weekend for the purple and gold as Kansas Wesleyan University gets set for Homecoming 2021. Festivities for alumni, current students, staff and family is rolling full speed ahead after Covid-19 swept the event off the calendar last year. Brad Salois, Director of Marketing and Communications at KWU tells KSAL News that there's far more ...