2 months ago
Salina Area Technical College is kicking off Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month with a major win for students and workforce development. Through the latest Congressional Appropriations bill, Salina Tech has secured $200,000 in federal funding to support the college’s Industrial Maintenance and Automation (IMA) program. According to the school, the funding will be used to ...

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Meteorologists from the National Weather Service this week will begin a kind of barnstorming tour to help prepare storm spotters and weather enthusiasts for the upcoming severe weather season, and their first stop is in Salina. Saline County Emergency Management, in partnership with the National Weather Service in Wichita, will host the annual Storm Fury on ...

2 months ago
Researchers at the University of Kansas have shown the National Severe Storms Laboratory’s Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS) has potential to help weather forecasters issue warnings to emergency managers and the general public well before tornado formation. Their study appears in the peer-reviewed journal Weather and Forecasting. The current lead time on issuing tornado warnings is about 15 minutes. The difference ...

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With the air temperature hovering around 40 degrees, the water temperature was barely above freezing at 34 degrees Saturday morning as a group of volunteers took the "Polar Plunge" into the ice covered lake at the Webster Conference Center. The Salina Polar Plunge event to help support Kansas Special Olympics was held at the Webster Conference ...

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The new February list of Salina’s Most Wanted is online. The first weekend of each month a new list of Salina’s Most Wanted is released. The February list went online Saturday morning. Those on the new list are wanted for crimes which include aggravated battery, making criminal threats, stalking, intimidation of a witness, fleeing and eluding, endangering a child, ...

2 months ago
A Salina Police Officer is among twenty-five new law enforcement officers who graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) on Friday. According to the University of Kansas, Integrity Auditorium filled quickly as friends and family gathered to celebrate the graduation of the 352nd Basic Training Class at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC). After ...

2 months ago
Christ Cathedral in Salina unveiled its annual Lenten Art Exhibit opening Friday. According to the church, four consecutive Sunday-morning Coffee Hour chats, begin this Sunday. First launched in 2023–24, the cathedral’s annual Lenten Art Exhibit encourages art lovers to experience original work centered around a faith-inspired theme. The theme for the 2026 exhibit is “Holiness In Our ...

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When the sun goes down on April 3rd - the lights will come up again at one of the last remaining outdoor movie theaters in Kansas. Last fall the new owners of the Kanopolis Drive-In learned their broken digital projector could not be fixed. With an estimated replacement cost of over $100,000 - the hill seemed ...

2 months ago
A Facebook Marketplace transaction gone wrong prompts an arrest. According to Salina Police, on Thursday at about 2:30 PM, contact was made with a 20-year-old male of Salina, who wanted to report the theft of a 2017 black Ninja Kawasaki motorcycle valued at $1,400. The victim advised he was attempting to sell the motorcycle on Facebook Marketplace. ...

2 months ago
Tips are being sought in connection with a break-in and theft at a Salina convenience store, and the damage of gaming machines and an ATM. The case is the latest Salina Crime Stoppers Crime of the week. According to Salina Police, on Saturday, January 31st, at about 11:15 PM two suspects broke out a window at ...

2 months ago
Disappointing results of a recent inspection of the Salina Animal Shelter have prompted a response from the City of Salina. The organization release the following: The City of Salina and the Salina Animal Shelter take animal welfare, humane care, and regulatory compliance seriously. On January 12, 2026, the Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA) conducted an inspection of ...