6 years ago
A video of some Salina students playing the guitar together from their homes is capturing hearts. Over two dozen students logged in and participated in the "virtual guitar group". The students are part of Salina South Middle School's 8th grade Advanced Guitar Class. They all were playing "Stand by Me" from their homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic ...

6 years ago
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has extended a statewide stay at home order through May 3rd. Kansans are directed to stay home unless performing one of the following essential activities: Obtaining food, medicine and other household necessities; Going to and from work at a business or organization performing an essential function as identified in the Kansas Essential ...

6 years ago
New instances of COVID-19 rose by 68 cases over the last 24 hours in the state of Kansas. The Kansas Department of Health & Environment says that as of 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, there are 1,494 cases of the virus in the state with 76 related deaths. Meanwhile, 13 people have now had the disease in Saline County ...

6 years ago
Salina Police are trying to track down property that was stolen from a storage unit. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that between Sunday at 8:30 p.m. and Tuesday at 5:15 p.m., someone appears to have broken in through the back wall of a storage unit belonging to Vince Grizzle, 46, Salina, at Storage ...

6 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a theft at a rural construction site in the western part of the county. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that sometime between April 7 at 5 p.m. and April 8 at 7 a.m., someone forced their way in to a construction trailer in the 2200 block ...

6 years ago
The Kansas Department of Labor is working to fix its unemployment website. Officials say the mainframe crashed on Monday, but was up and running yesterday. The unemployment website was taken down for maintenance twice yesterday. More than 100-thousand people in Kansas filed for unemployment this week, and lawmakers are afraid technology issues will also be a problem ...

6 years ago
Arguably no other business model has been challenged as much by the COVID-19 pandemic than gyms and wellness facilities. Many of those kind of facilities that rely on patrons coming in and working out or participating in a wellness activity in numbers larger than 10. With the guidance limiting gatherings to 10 people or less from the ...

6 years ago
A new assistant principal will take over at a Salina high school. According to USD 305, Clay Mettlen will begin as an assistant principal at Central High School beginning in July 2020. Mettlen has been an educator for fourteen years with his most recent experience as an assistant principal and activities director at USD 362 Prairie ...

6 years ago
In an effort to balance enrollment between schools Salina USD 305 officials are looking at changing the boundary line between two elementary schools. According to the  district, reorganization of a boundary line between Meadowlark Ridge and Oakdale elementary schools is being considered to improve the balance between elementary schools while affecting the fewest families. Oakdale’s student enrollment ...

6 years ago
A couple of workers sustained minor injures in a partial floor collapse at the Kansas State University library. According to the school, at approximately 9:17 Tuesday morning, a small 20-by-20 feet area of the third floor of Hale Library collapsed onto the second floor. Two non-K-State employees received minor injuries. They were evaluated by EMS and ...

6 years ago
The University of Kansas Medical Center announced today that it will be participating in a nationwide clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in preventing COVID-19 infection in exposed health care workers. KU Medical Center is one of 60 such sites across the nation that will be participating in this clinical trial, led ...