1 year ago
Four park locations in Salina will accept and recycle Christmas trees into mulch through the end January 31, 2025. According to the City of Salina, the mulch will be used around newly planted trees and to surface nature trails. Christmas trees must be free of ornaments, stands, netting and plastic bags. Yard waste will not be accepted. Drop-off ...

1 year ago
The Christmas and New Year's Day holidays are altering the City of Salina's sanitation service. The holiday schedule is as follows: There will be no sanitation collection on Wednesday, December 25th (Christmas Day) or Wednesday, January 1st (New Year’s Day). During both weeks: After Christmas Day (December 25th): Collection will be one day behind schedule, resuming Thursday, December ...

1 year ago
For the 42nd year in a row Bill Fekas, along with a dedicated group of volunteers, prepared a free community-wide Christmas dinner. A damp Christmas day set the scene as people lined up and patiently waited to file through the Saline County 4H building to receive  Christmas dinner, with an extra helping of Christmas cheer. Again ...

1 year ago
It’s a long holiday season, and the Mega Million jackpot is keeping pace with all the traditional celebrations. According to the lottery, after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn on Christmas Eve, the big prize swells to an estimated $1.15 billion ($516.1 million cash) for the next drawing on Friday. If won at that level, ...

1 year ago
A vote is set for the proposed merger between Spirit AeroSystems and Boeing. In a filing before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Spirit issued a notice of a special meeting of stockholders for January 31st. If the merger is approved during the meeting, the deal would be finalized by mid-2025.

1 year ago
A person is dead following a house fire in McPherson County. The blaze broke out Sunday in the one-thousand-block of Ninth Avenue in rural McPherson. The homeowner was later found dead inside the house. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

1 year ago
Salina chef Bill Fekas will be hard at work Christmas Eve, putting the final touches on a Christmas dinner for several thousand of his closest family and friends. For the 42nd year in a row, Fekas is preparing a free community-wide Christmas dinner. Fekas is planning to prepare and serve a free dinner to as many ...

1 year ago
For the 69th year in a row the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, will track Santa as he flies around the world delivering toys to all of the good boys and girls. Every day of the year, NORAD defends North America using an all-domain and globally integrated approach to track everything that flies in and around Canada and the United ...

1 year ago
The Salina City Manager is resigning after serving the city for 19 years. City Manager Mike Schrage was full of emotions when he voluntarily resigned at the city commission's executive session on Monday. [audio wav="https://www.ksal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/schrage-II.wav"][/audio]   "My family and I absolutely love Salina. I thoroughly enjoyed the work of being the city manager now more than ever and I ...

1 year ago
A police pursuit leads to the arrest of a Salina man. Police Captain Jim Feldman tells KSAL News that just after noon on Sunday, a patrol officer identified a man with an active warrant driving a Cadillac DeVille in the 1900 block of N. 9th Street. Police say 19-year-old Tevin Schimmel began making abrupt turns, pulling into ...

1 year ago
A Salina woman was arrested after a domestic dispute took a violent turn. Police Captain Jim Feldman tells KSAL News that 42-year-old Sarah E. Windholz was taken into custody after officers were sent to the 900 block of S. Santa Fe Sunday afternoon. Police say Windholz became upset with a 77-year-old woman in the house believing she ...