6 years ago
Kansas State University Executive Reawakening Team presented the university's reopening plan to the First Tuesday roundtable group for department heads on May 5 and to the public on the COVID-19 reopening website. The plan is a phased approach with universitywide criteria that aligns with White House, state of Kansas, Riley County and CDC requirements and guidance. It calls for operational ...

6 years ago
The City of Salina has recently made numerous changes to its budget, staffing schedules and operational hours. According to the City, the most-recent budget adjustments were made through a combination of work-hour reductions, temporary furloughs, not filling 30 existing vacancies, and suspending hiring numerous seasonal part-time employees pending further review of seasonal program offerings. The full economic ...

6 years ago
Saline County has gone five 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. Statewide, though, numbers keep rising. The KDHE reported the following in their daily release: A total of 5,458 positive cases and 137 deaths.  That is an increase of ...

6 years ago
The Central Mall will reopen on Wednesday. According to the mall, they will have limited hours, Monday to Saturday 11am - 7pm and Sundays 12pm - 6pm. Entrance doors will open one hour prior to the mall opening. They say the safety and health of guests, employees, and community is always their top priority. The Central Mall will ...

6 years ago
What took a decade for airlines to rebuild following the Great Recession - has taken a little more than a month to choke out on the runway. According to Tim Rogers Executive Director with Salina Airport Authority, air carriers around the nation have taken a significant hit from the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in a 95% drop ...

6 years ago
Misuse by the public has prompted a closure of access to an area of Kanopolis Reservoir. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, vehicle access to Venango Park is currently closed. They say the change in access is due to a rise in vandalism, theft, littering, and disregard for the CDC’s recommended social distancing practices ...

6 years ago
The top 21 high school students from 16 area schools have been named to the Governor's Scholar program. Both Salina Central and South high schools have three winners, each. McPherson High School has two winners, while each other area high school has one student recognized. The Kansas State Department of Education announced the Governor's Scholars program honors ...

6 years ago
A northeast Saline County home is destroyed by fire. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that Rural Fire Districts No. 5 and No. 7 were called to a house fire at 3488 N. Crystal Springs Rd. at 10:58 p.m. on Friday, May 1. The residence is a single story home with a cabin attached to ...

6 years ago
Tyson Foods says pork production is down 50-percent due to the coronavirus outbreak. Despite President Trump's order last week to keep meat processing plants open, the company has been fored to shut down or slow production at half of its plants around the country because of sick workers. So, it's likely we'll see shortages of meat ...

6 years ago
Three people on the May list of Salina's Most Wanted have been arrested. The new list of Salina's Most Wanted went online Saturday. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office, the arrests include: Barnes, Mason, James Darby, Aaron, Marquise, Pashon Franco, Gamaliel Since the Most Wanted program began back in July of 2000, thanks to tips from the ...

6 years ago
A Salina South High School graduate has won a Pulitzer Prize. Author and poet Anne Boyer, a creative writing instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute and a breast cancer survivor, won the prestigious award in the General Non-Fiction Category for "The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care".  The ...