9 months ago
Bands who want to be considered to perform in what’s billed as “the biggest showcase in the USA”, in front of a crowd in excess of 12,000 people at the official opening event of the Smoky Hill River Festival, can begin to apply. If your band, three-piece more, is interested in performing at this event contact ...

9 months ago
Police are warning of scammers impersonating local law enforcement officers to extract money from unsuspecting victims. According to the Hays Police Department, the scammers used the names of two actual Hays Police Department supervisors and threatened potential targets with an arrest warrant if they did not immediately pay a fee over the phone. In recent incidents, the ...

9 months ago
Authorities are investigating a dispute that took place at a Salina apartment complex. Police Captain Mike Miller tells KSAL News on Thursday, March 13th around noon, a woman reported a male suspect kicked down her front door at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of Hageman. Allegedly, the suspect had a gun in his hand ...

9 months ago
Salina Police are seeking tips in connection with a business burglary. The crime is the latest Salina Crime Stoppers crime of the week. Police say on Monday, March 10th, officers responded to Pack Rat Smokes at 695 S. Broadway in reference to a business burglary. Surveillance video from the business showed, during the overnight hours, two subjects ...

9 months ago
The Greater Salina Community Foundation hosted Salina’s 14th annual Match Madness giving day on Thursday. Preliminary numbers indicate a record amount of money was gifted, crushing the previous record amount. A tabulation of the final leader board indicates in 24 hours, $818,100.01 was raised. That total includes 3,213 gifts for 103 area nonprofit organizations via donations. The ...

9 months ago
Central Kansas may not be under a threat of severe weather to begin the weekend, but there is another sort of imminent threat. According to the National Weather Service, strong sustained potentially damaging wind is anticipated Friday. The strongest sustained wind speeds and damaging wind gusts will impact mainly south central and southeast Kansas this afternoon. ...

9 months ago
A measles case is confirmed in Southwest Kansas. According to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, a measles case has been confirmed in Stevens County. Health officials say it's not known if the case is linked to any ongoing outbreaks, but the Stevens County Health Department is notifying people who might have been exposed to ...

9 months ago
Kansas lawmakers are considering legislation expanding the definition of child pornography. The measure would expand what is considered child pornography to include content that's digitally altered to look like a specific child. The bill also includes content made entirely by AI to represent a specific minor. The measure was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

9 months ago
The new Kansas Fishing Atlas which came out this week has a local connection to it, the cover photo is a young man from Salina fishing, taken by a Salina photographer. Tanner Colvin shot a photo earlier this year of Thomas Humphrey fishing at Outlet Park below the dam at Kanopolis State Park. Colvin submitted the ...

9 months ago
Authorities are looking for a woman who is facing felony charges in Salina, who walked away from a drug treatment facility in Wichita. The Saline County Sheriff's Office tells KSAL News 42-year-old Amanda Vinardi was picked up in Wichita on January 9th, in connection with a Saline County District Court Warrant. She was arrested there and ...

9 months ago
Students studying to become nurses at Fort Hays State University will benefit from the sale of an Osborne County farmstead and farmland. According to Fort Hays State University, Roxy (Green) Tate, a 1972 FHSU graduate, recently made a significant gift to the university that will keep her family’s name alive. Last year, she sold her family’s 160-acre ...