6 years ago
Two more people on the May list of Salina's Most Wanted have been arrested. The new list of Salina's Most Wanted went online Saturday. Since then, five of them have been arrested. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, the latest arrests include: Kevin Bollinger David Skillin Those on the May list of Salina's Most Wanted are wanted ...

6 years ago
The aviation program on the Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus has a new leader. With more than 30 years of experience as a pilot, Gold Seal flight instructor, aviation mechanic, authorized inspector and educator, Terry Hunt has been selected as the director of aviation at K-State Polytechnic and will begin his role July 1. Previously, he served as an ...

6 years ago
A Salina man is in jail after displaying odd behavior at a Salina gun store leading the store to call authorities. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that police were called to Wilson Security Solutions, 527 S. Broadway Blvd., in reference to a patron acting odd. Kristoffer Augustine, 29, Salina, was in the store and ...

6 years ago
A downtown Salina business is recovering from what appears to be BB gun damage to the front window. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that the damage occurred at Farmer's Insurance Group, 154 S. 7th St., between Monday at 12 p.m. and Wednesday at 5:25 p.m. The owner of the business noticed that the store ...

6 years ago
One of the wort tornadoes in Kansas history roared across the state nearly a century ago today. According to the National Weather Service, on May 7th, 1927 a huge F5 tornado raced 95 miles on the ground. The massive tornado was nearly 2 miles wide. It formed in extreme South Central Kansas and didn't lift for 95 ...

6 years ago
The Kansas Legislature is set to return to Topeka for the first time in more than two months. The Kansas Legislative Coordinating Council has voted to have the legislature return to Topeka on May 21st to complete the 2020 legislative session. Kansas lawmakers were last in Topeka in mid-March when the session was put on hold due ...

6 years ago
Saline County has gone six days in a row without any additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 to report. The county is holding steady with 21 cases and two deaths. In Saline County, 532 people have been tested. In Central Kansas McPherson County has 25 cases, Marion County is still with five, Ottawa County has four, Rice County ...

6 years ago
Over 5,700 Kansans have contracted Coronavirus. That's according to the Kansas Department of Health & Environment who released the latest information at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The KDHE says that 5,734 people have COVID-19 in Kansas, while 571 have had to be hospitalized and the death toll has now ticked to 144 people. New cases continue to fire ...

6 years ago
With a heart for the elderly and a high regard for the workers who care for them, Brian Metzger of Salina has put his own business on hold to provide free protective masks to help in the fight against COVID-19.   [audio mp3="https://www.ksal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/metzger-1.mp3"][/audio]   Metzger is the owner of GP Home Defense, and as a bed bug elimination expert ...

6 years ago
In a money saving effort cutbacks are being implemented at Salina Animal Services. According to the City of Salina, they have temporarily reduced the schedule of its workforce possibly through the end of the year in an effort to prepare for expected budget shortfalls due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the April safer-at-home order. The City says ...

6 years ago
A motorcycle driver suffered very minor injuries in a collision with a vehicle near the west end of Salina. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that the crash occurred at 11:55 a.m. Tuesday, at the intersection of W. Crawford St. and Montrose St. Devin Buchenau, 32, Salina, was driving his 2012 Dong Fang D150TKB motorcycle ...