4 years ago
The Saline County Health Department has been sifting through CDC changes and seeking clarification from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment on COVID 19 guidelines. Saline County Health Officer Jason Tiller tells KSAL News those updated bullet points are coming soon. [audio mp3="https://www.ksal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Tiller-1-1-6.mp3"][/audio]   New guidelines recently released by the CDC are still under review. Saline County Health ...

4 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a hit and run case that damaged two street signs near Oakdale Park. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that on Wednesday around 4:30 p.m., a vehicle going north on Kenwood Park Drive in the midway left the road and struck a couple of street signs. The vehicle left northbound, but ...

4 years ago
A Wichita man is at the center of a DUI case after he allegedly hit a parked vehicle. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that on Wednesday around 6 a.m., an officer saw a towing wrecker in the parking lot of the Trinity Lutheran Church, located at 702 S. Ninth Street. The wrecker was resting ...

4 years ago
A Salina man has been arrested after he allegedly stole a laptop and tried to take another from an area business. Miguel Hernandez, 26, is facing charges including attempted theft, theft and damage to property. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers reviewed surveillance footage of the theft from Tuesday and tracked down the ...

4 years ago
City crews pretreated Salina streets with road salt and Magnesium Chloride (MgCl2) brine beginning at noon Wednesday, January 5. Crews were activated again at 11:00 p.m. and began plowing operations with eight plow trucks and two motor graders at midnight. The photo at the bottom represents the subsequent six-hour period for City plow trucks clearing ...

4 years ago
Several inches of snow fell in Salina late Wednesday into early Thursday. According to the National Weather Service, snow will end this morning across central and eastern Kansas with some sunshine expected in the afternoon. However it will remain bitter cold with highs generally in the teens and wind chills from 5 below to 5 above ...

4 years ago
There have been no new COVID deaths in Saline County since Monday and 257 new cases. According to the Saline County Health Department, there are currently 1,026 active cases in the community. Salina Regional Health Center reports that 28 patients require hospitalization related to COVID-19. There have been 188 COVID related deaths overall. An additional 200 people were vaccinated ...

4 years ago
Bethany College is introducing what it says is a new and improved way to post jobs, advertise internships, announce mentorships and hire Bethany students. The new service is called "Handshake". According to the school, as part of Bethany's mission to help students discover and navigate the path to their purpose, they have partnered with Handshake because ...

4 years ago
A man and a woman from Salina were killed in a multi-vehicle crash on a highway in Oklahoma. According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the double fatality collision happened at 4:35 AM Tuesday on Interstate 35, a mile south of Tonkawa, Oklahoma in Kay County. The agency says 21-year-old Kyra D. Ray and 22-year-old Xavier M. ...

4 years ago
Authorities are reviewing surveillance footage from a Salina store after a couple of computers were stolen. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers were sent to Sam's Club located at 2919 Market Place on Tuesday morning around 10:30am after a suspect cut the anti-theft cables on a couple of lap tops and walked out ...

4 years ago
Thieves take copper wire from a job site south of Salina. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that sometime between the middle of December and January 3rd, someone broke the latch on a steel, storage container owned by Evergy and removed some copper ground wire that was inside. The Conex box was located near a ...