8 years ago
After previous trips to locations including Italy, Ireland, and Greece, the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce is ready for more adventures. They are prepping their passports and getting ready to head to China. In partnership the Salina and Manhattan Area Chambers of Commerce are hosting China Explorer on September 30 - October 8, 2019. The trip will be ...

8 years ago
The Salina Art Center has commissioned 25 Kansas artists to help celebrate the Art Center’s 40th anniversary with a project inspired by Conrad Snider’s ceramic tile mural on the Art Center’s Santa Fe facade. Twenty-five individual works are being sold through online auction. Bidding will close Sept. 28, 2018 at midnight. The works of art can ...

8 years ago
Proclaiming a theme of “Unlocking Untapped Potential,” Dr. Tisa Mason was inaugurated today as the 10th president of Fort Hays State University in a ceremony in Gross Memorial Coliseum at Fort Hays State University. Dr. Mason noted the inauguration is for her a personal and a professional privilege, citing the six and a half years she ...

8 years ago
Salina's public transportation routes are now available on the worlds largest web mapping service. The OCCK Transportation public transit system is now on Google Maps. Transit Data for the CityGo fixed route service is now available through Google Maps to allow riders to plan trips and get directions using our transit service. OCCK Transportation is one of ...

8 years ago
Thanks to a large grant the University of Kansas is partnering with Salina Arts & Humanities on an art education project. According to KU, the Freeman Foundation has awarded the Spencer Museum of Art $437,261 to develop a K-12 outreach program focused on Asian art. Through this two-year grant, the Spencer Museum will partner with Salina ...

8 years ago
The American College of Radiology recently awarded the Tammy Walker Cancer Center Department of Radiation Oncology at Salina Regional Health Center a full three-year re-accreditation. Among physicians, ACR accreditation is recognized as the gold standard in medical imaging. Because of rigorous accreditation guidelines, few oncology practices in the state currently have the ACR gold seal ...

8 years ago
A Salina man was duped for over $1,300 after trying to make a sale on an internet site. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that the 48-year-old man posted an item on a buy-sell-trade site and then received an email of interest last week. The scammer convinced the victim he could keep $190 for his trouble ...

8 years ago
A theft of an industrial GPS unit is this week's Salina Crime Stoppers crime of the week. On Thursday, August 27, 2018, sometime between 0930 – 1230 hours, Smoky Hill Construction was performing duties on the Santa Fe project in the 100 block of S 4th Street in Salina. A GPS unit was stolen from a 7’ ...

8 years ago
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to address Kansas law-enforcement personnel today at a police training center. Officials say Sessions is set to speak at Hutchinson's Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center at 2:45 this afternoon. He will reportedly speak on ways to reduce violent crime. Last year, the state's murder rate was the highest on ...

8 years ago
A Maine man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison after being convicted by a jury of first degree murder and related crimes in Ottawa County. According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt 35-year-old Robert Willard Colson of Bucksport, Maine, was sentenced by Judge Rene Young to life in prison without the possibility of parole for ...

8 years ago
An event at the Kansas State Fair on Thursday was the first of several which will be happening across the state over the next several weeks. An event honoring the Kansas Highway Patrol's 10 fallen troopers was held. It was attended by family members of the honored troopers. Governor Jeff Colyer and Colonel Mark Bruce spoke ...