3 years ago
Volunteers willing to put in a half-day of work are being recruited to help make Salina a better place to live. People of all ages are needed to roll up their sleeves and tackle a variety of community service projects during the annual Spring Spruce-Up effort, which is scheduled for this Saturday, April 29th. Spring Spruce-Up ...

3 years ago
Artificial Intelligence is clearly here to stay. How will it grow and who is shepherding the process? Dr. Michael Pritchard Kansas State - Salina Campus joined in on the KSAL Morning News Extra on Wednesday to take a deep dive into AI to explore where we've been and where we are going with super computers, cybernetics ...

3 years ago
A running event that has been associated with the Smoky Hill River Festival for over 40 years looks to be be bigger and better this year. Organizers say the 42nd Annual Smoky Hill River Run, formerly Festival Fitness Five, will have over a dozen vendors that will provide a variety of food, entertainment and healthy lifestyle ...

3 years ago
 Kansas Wesleyan’s DECA team continues to make a case as one of the world’s best programs. KWU captured a pair of world championships and was the only school to have all of its competitors finish in the top 10 at this year’s International Career Development Conference, held in Orlando, Fla., April 15-18. According to KWU, the ...

3 years ago
The Kansas Book Festival is providing much-needed funding for libraries across the state. According to the organization, a library in rural Kansas hasn’t had funding for new children’s books for a decade or more. Another serves more than 1,500 patrons from a town with a population half that size. Communities pool resources so that a librarian ...

3 years ago
The "Kansas Broadband Roadshow" is coming to Salina. According to the Kansas Lieutenant Governor's Office, the Kansas Office of Broadband Development will bring its “Kansas Broadband Roadshow” to Salina on Thursday, May 4th, from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM at the Salina Public Library. Broadband staff currently are traveling across the state to learn directly from Kansans ...

3 years ago
A man from Abilene was killed in a two-vehicle head-on crash involving a pickup truck and a semi early Tuesday morning in rural Dickinson County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 43-year-old Eric Skilling of Abilene was driving a 2005 Ford F 150 pickup truck headed north on K 15 Highway.  For an unknown reason he ...

3 years ago
A police pursuit was called off in the dust west of Salina. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News the tag reader system alerted an officer of a reported stolen Dodge 4-door Magnum in the area of Beverly and Rocket. An officer pulled the vehicle over and was approaching the car on foot when the ...

3 years ago
A 17-year-old driver from Assaria was taken to the hospital after rolling his truck early Tuesday morning. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that around 2:40am the driver lost control of the 2004 GMC pickup as he traveled southbound in the 7200 block of S Ohio. Deputies say the pickup rolled once, coming to rest ...

3 years ago
A child is killed in a gas station crash and fire in Derby. Police say a car lost control and ran into a gas pump at a QuikTrip at 1430 Nelson Drive yesterday afternoon. The crash caused an explosion, which injured a woman pumping gas and killed a three-year-old child. Police say that a medical condition may have ...

3 years ago
Governor Kelly is vetoing a proposed bill that would establish a flat tax rate. The measure would have established a five-point-one-five percent flat income tax for all taxpayers and lowered the normal tax for corporations. Kelly announced that the bill would have cost Kansas one-point-three-billion-dollars over the next three years and placed funding for public schools at ...