6 years ago
The community is invited to help rebrand downtown Salina. Salina Downtown, Inc. has launched a major rebranding community contest to reflect downtown’s new and improved streetscape project. According to the organization. the Salina Downtown Marketing Committee invites all creative and artistic minds to help strengthen the identity of downtown through a logo design and tagline challenge. The ...

6 years ago
Police are investigating a damage to property case in north Salina. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that an employee at BJ Koetting Construction arrived at work on Thursday morning and discovered windows at the business and glass on a boom truck had been shattered. Police say sometime between 5:30pm Wednesday and Thursday at 9am someone ...

6 years ago
A Reno County man is facing federal charges after he allegedly tried to pass off bogus bills a week ago in Hutchinson. City officials say 31-year-old William Henry Scott Crider was busted yesterday on a single count of counterfeiting U.S. currency, as well as one count of theft by deception. A pizza-delivery driver reportedly ID'd Crider as ...

6 years ago
A two-year-old boy who was found dead in his west Wichita home six weeks ago showed bruises all over his body. That's the word from local officials, who released a probable-cause affidavit yesterday in the case of Bernardo Gonzalez-Mejia, the boyfriend of Jacob Aviles' mother. EMTs were called to the boy's home in the 11-hundred block of ...

6 years ago
Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus has signed a transfer agreement with Green River College in Auburn, Washington. The agreement offers transfer credit hours to Green River students who apply and qualify for admission to Kansas State Polytechnic. Recruitment efforts will focus on international students pursuing aviation and technology degrees. "We were looking to partner with an institution ...

6 years ago
Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man who passed counterfeit money at a Salina truck stop.  The crime is this week's Salina Crimestoppers crime of the week. According to police, on October 30th a person entered the Flying J Travel Center, located at 2250 N Ohio and passed counterfeit currency. The suspect ...

6 years ago
The art has gone wild in a new gallery display at Rolling Hills Zoo. The zoo unveiled its new Art Gone Wild Gallery Show in the Earl Bane Gallery Thursday evening. The display includes juried art, plein air art, and even animal art. Many of the art pieces which include multi forms of art, were created last ...

6 years ago
It’s a Kansas tradition to open the pheasant and quail seasons on the second Saturday in November. If you’re a bird hunter, you've probably been losing sleep thinking about opening day. The Kansas pheasant and quail season opens this Saturday. More than 80,000 hunters will hunt pheasants in Kansas, and while there is some overlap, more ...

6 years ago
Nominees for the NEA-Salina USD 305 Master Teacher award will be recognized. According to USD 305, educators of NEA-Salina and members of the community are invited to hear the Master Teacher nominees and then attend a reception. The event will be held on November 20th at 4:30 in the New Gym at Schilling Elementary School. Nominated for ...

6 years ago
Quick action by a homeowner and her neighbor quells a fire at a home north of Salina. Firefighters from RFD #7 were sent to a residence in the 5100 block on North Old 81-Highway after flames were seen on the exterior of the house. Deputies with the Saline County Sheriff's Office report that Deborah Jackson was inside ...

6 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a residential burglary near New Cambria this week. According to Saline County Undersheriff Brent Melander, sometime Wednesday between 8am and 6:30pm someone entered a home in the 5200 block of E. North Street and stole a Samsung Galaxy cell phone, Galaxy tablet, a Jimenez 380 pistol, a Hi-Point 9mm ...