8 years ago
Salina Police are investigating the theft of some high-end bicycles from two garages in the Indian Rock neighborhood. Police say sometime between 6pm Wednesday and 3:15pm Thursday afternoon, someone entered an attached garage and a free standing garage at a home in the 1000 block of Greeley Ave. and stole four bikes. The owner, Brad Chapel told ...

8 years ago
On Tuesday, November 21, 2017, at about 3:30 a.m., Officers of the Salina Police Department were sent to the 700 block of N. 9th, Salina, Kansas, in reference to gunshots. Contact was made with a witness who reported seeing a white, unknown make, passenger car driving in the area. The witness then observed a suspect shooting ...

8 years ago
A Salina man who was making threats to 'shoot up the building' was taken into custody after crisis negotiators talked him out of his apartment on Thursday afternoon. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that several tenants at the Pioneers Presidents' Place Apartments located at 220 S. 7th became concerned after a man became violent around ...

8 years ago
An explosion and a fire at a Westar Energy substation knocked out power for a large portion of South Salina on Friday morning. It happened at around 7:15, at the Westar Energy Southgate Substation at the corner of Wayne Avenue and Huntington Road. A neighbor told KSAL News at the scene that there was an explosion ...

8 years ago
An explosion and a fire at a Westar Energy substation knocked out power for a large portion of South Salina on Friday morning. It happened at around 7:15, at the Westar Energy Southgate Substation at the corner of Wayne Avenue and Huntington Road. A neighbor told KSAL News at the scene that there was an explosion ...

8 years ago
Sedgwick County is out of the running for a new operations center for Tyson Foods. Officials with the Greater Wichita Partnership yesterday said a lack of county support to provide incentives is the reason. The company had announced two months ago it was eyeing the county for its new operations center. Story from Metro Source Copyright © Rocking M ...

8 years ago
The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism has confirmed the presence of invasive zebra mussels in Geary State Fishing Lake in Geary County. Zebra mussel larvae, also called veligers, were detected in routine samples collected by KDWPT staff. With this discovery, staff returned to the lake and located an established population of adult zebra ...

8 years ago
No one was injured in a fire that damaged a home in Culver on Thursday morning. Ottawa County Sheriff Keith Coleman told KSAL News that first responders were called to a fire at a home at 221 Main Street in Culver. A neighbor ran to the scene to assist before firefighters arrived. Nate Willard told KSAL News that ...

8 years ago
A group of Kansas Highway Patrol recruits had their badges pinned on Thursday afternoon in Salina and officially became Kansas Highway Patrol troopers and Capitol Police officers . The 43 new officers were part of KHP Recruit Class #57, the latest graduates from the Kansas Highway Patrol Training Academy. The Patrol’s 38 newest troopers and five ...

8 years ago
Salina Police are investigating four incidents of spray paint vandalism that are likely connected. According to Captain Paul Forrester, vandals tagged a wall at Fountain Plaza at 2100 S. 9th, a fence and dumpster at Casey's located at 725 W. Schilling Road and a wall at Diehl Construction, 522 Bishop. All the sites had the phrase 'Ground ...

8 years ago
No one was hurt when a semi hauling a load of hay caught fire Wednesday evening along Interstate 70 near Salina. Firefighters from Rural Fire District 3 and Rural Fire District 7 responded to the fire, which was located in the area of milepost 242 west of Salina. Officials tell KSAL News that it appeared the fire ...