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Friday marks the 11 year anniversary of the beginning of three days of one of the largest severe weather outbreaks in the state’s history. May 4th through May 6th 2007, severe weather pounded a large part of the area. The most notable event was the Greensburg tornado on May 4th, 2007. The tornado killed 12 people ...

8 years ago
Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland has awarded $26,500 in scholarships eight Kansas Girl Scouts. According to the organization, these scholarships, made possible through the George W. and Jayne S. Smith Scholarship Fund, recognize the leadership and service exhibited by Girl Scouts. Jayne Smith served as executive director of the Wichita Area Girl Scout Council for 28 ...

8 years ago
Most state employees in Kansas are in for a pay raise in the new state budget. Lawmakers in Topeka yesterday approved the seven billion-dollar plan which will spend about 400 million-dollars more than the current budget. Much of the money will go to cover a five percent pay raise for state workers. Anyone who did not get ...

8 years ago
Saturday morning it will be out with the old, in with the new. The 2018 version of Sculpture Tour Salina will be unveiled. The 22 sculptures that have been in Downtown Salina for the past year have come down to make way for a group of new ones, which will be unveiled simultaneously on Saturday, May ...

8 years ago
Get outdoors and celebrate your place in nature and your community at Discover Salina Naturally, this Sunday, May 6, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Lakewood Park. This one-of-a-kind festival was voted finalist in the Salina Journal’s Readers’ Choice Awards for a community event in 2016 and 2017. It introduces young families to local history, ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a man and woman who sparked a road rage fist fight and then drove away. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that on Wednesday afternoon, a 25-year-old woman from Gypsum was driving her car near the intersection of State and Broadway when she noticed a red van tailgating her. Moments later the ...

8 years ago
Kansas officials are helping people with past convictions to more easily find a job. Governor Jeff Colyer signed an executive order yesterday to "ban the box." The measure prevents state agencies from requiring people seeking jobs to mark a box on their applications which asks if they have ever been found guilty of a crime. State agencies ...

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Graduation ceremonies for Salina Area Technical College’s Class of 2018 will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5 at the Stiefel Theater in downtown Salina. The guest speaker will be Dustin Pestinger of Pestinger’s Heating and Air Conditioning and president of the college’s Board of Trustees. There are 110 in the graduating class, of which 45 ...

8 years ago
A tornado that first touched down Tuesday night in rural Saline County and stayed on the ground for nearly a half hour before dissipating in rural Ottawa County has been rated an EF-3 by the National Weather Service. According to the agency the tornado had a peak wind of 140 miles per hour. The half-mile wide ...

8 years ago
Damage reports continue to flood in from the tornado that struck the extreme northwest corner of Saline County and southern portions of Ottawa County on Tuesday night. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that there was damage to property in the 6200 block of N. Brookville Rd. in the far northwest corner of Saline ...

8 years ago
Salina Police have arrested a Salina man with the help of a K-9 sniffing unit to find the fleeing suspect. Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that police were called to the 100 block of N. Wisconsin in regards to a domestic disturbance on Wednesday at 2:20 p.m. At the residence, police were told by a ...