6 years ago
The largest public-private partnership in the history of Salina will be substantially completed by the end of this week. The Downtown Streetscape Project on Santa Fe Ave will will wind down on Friday. According to the City of Salina, the final completion of Campbell Plaza, the Walnut Street intersection, and various landscaping items will be complete ...

6 years ago
Kansas will join a nationwide drive to keep guns out of the hands of domestic violence offenders, convicted felons and people with serious mental problems. According to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister, the plan called Project Guardian puts new emphasis on using the federal background check system for gun purchases to identify straw purchasers, individuals convicted of ...

6 years ago
A Bennington woman is among a group of players who are headed to see the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Denver Broncos after winning a lottery prize valued at over $3,500. According to the Kansas Lottery, 10 lucky players have won tickets to the game in Kansas City on December 15th. The players qualified for the ...

6 years ago
Firefighters made quick work of a fire at a Salina church Wednesday evening. At around 6:00 first responders were called to the report of a fire at the Village Bible Church at 1301 Osage. Salina Fire Department Battalion Chief David Turner told KSAL News at the scene there was an active fire, with flames visible, when the ...

6 years ago
An anonymous tip to Salina Police leads to a drug related arrest on Tuesday evening. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers were sent to Bennington State Bank at 200 S. 9th Street around 7pm after someone called authorities about spotting a man wanted for a probation violation. Police contacted 38-year-old Justin Crough outside the ...

6 years ago
NASA experts are weighing in on a meteor spotted streaking across the Midwest sky. The NASA Meteoroid Environments Office in Huntsville, Alabama says the bright light Monday night was a basketball-size hunk of rock that broke off an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter before entering Earth's atmosphere as a meteor. The meteor was accompanied by ...

6 years ago
A gift from a Kansas couple will help Kansas State University establish 50 new scholarships. According to the school, the estate of Otis and Wanda Gilliland, Wellington, has given $1.6 million to KSU.  This gift has established the Gilliland K-State Family Scholarship, which creates match opportunities for 50 scholarships in support of students in the university's ...

6 years ago
Barbara Mulvihill, an information services librarian at Salina Public Library, will present “Stop Playing Telephone: Separating Fact From Fiction in Family Stories” during Family History Detectives on Nov. 21. The genealogy group will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s Prescott Room. Many families have stories that have been passed down through the generations. Mulvihill will ...

6 years ago
A storm is forecast for Salina this February...literally. Storm Large will perform at the Stiefel Theatre. Musician, actor, playwright, author, Storm Large shot to national prominence in 2006 as a finalist on the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova, where despite having been eliminated in the week before the finale, Storm built a fan base that follows ...

6 years ago
A California man who allegedly stole a Lowe's delivery truck is now sitting in the Saline County Jail facing theft charges. According to Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester, 53-year-old Carlo Watson jumped into a 17-foot Lowe's truck that was left running in the 300 block of W. South Street Friday afternoon around 2:30pm. A couple of Lowe's ...

6 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a residential burglary after a cash and a vehicle were stolen. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that sometime between 5pm on November 9 and 8am on November 11, someone entered an unlocked home in the 400 block of Indiana Street and took a backpack loaded with clothes and approximately $500 in ...