3 years ago
The Kansas Child Welfare System is making "significant progress". According to Governor Laura Kelly's Office, Kansas foster children have stable placements and are experiencing fewer moves while in care, according to the first report from the Neutral Third Party in the McIntyre class action lawsuit settlement. “My administration inherited a broken child welfare system that had an unacceptable ...

3 years ago
The Catholic Schools of the Salina Diocese have earned a notable distinction. According to the diocese, its Salina schools have been named a 2022 Cognia System of Distinction for excellence in education. Cognia, the global nonprofit school improvement organization, recognized 96 schools/school systems in the United States and Puerto Rico and nine in other countries across ...

3 years ago
Police are investigating a business burglary after someone stole a safe from a Salina eatery. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that around 5:10am Friday morning, someone pried open the backdoor to gain entry into the Wingstop restaurant located at 1621 S. Ohio. Police say surveillance video shows a white, male with long hair drag the ...

3 years ago
The exhibit “Full Circle: The Art of Teaching Art,” created by Nancy Williams ’91 in conjunction with Noah Smucker and Noah Wellbrock-Talley, opens this week in The Gallery at Kansas Wesleyan University. According to the school, through their works, Williams, a KWU alumna who has taught middle school art for 25 years at USD 305, and ...

3 years ago
Saturday's storm had deputies from the Salina County Sheriff's Office responding to a number of severe weather events. According to Sheriff Roger Soldan, deputies assisted the Kansas Highway Patrol on Saturday night around 8:44pm after a semi truck blew over on I-70 around mile marker 253. EMS checked out the driver and passenger who were okay. A ...

3 years ago
A program examining President Dwight Eisenhower's leadership during the cold war is planned for this week.  The public is invited to attend the September Lunch & Learn at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene on Thursday. The program will be held in the library building auditorium and will begin promptly at noon. Guests ...

3 years ago
A tire collection event is planned for this coming Saturday in Salina. If you have old tires you want to dispose of,  North Salina Community Development is sponsoring the Saline County free car and pickup truck tire collection event. The event is planned for Saturday, September 24th. It will be from 8AM till 2PM at the vacant ...

3 years ago
Salina Area United Way is now accepting grant applications for the 2022 Make A Difference Grants. According to the agency, there will be $100,000 available in grant funding for this upcoming year. The purpose of Make A Difference Grants is to be responsive to community needs and providing funding for programs that make a difference in our ...

3 years ago
While it's more common in the spring, severe weather which rolled across the area Saturday night produced wind up to 78-miles per hour, hail up to the size of quarters, and 1.74 inches of rain in the Salina area is not really that rare in the fall. Severe weather in Kansas in the fall is not ...

3 years ago
After spring-like severe weather rolled across the area Saturday night, potentially record-setting summer-like heat is settling in now for the next several days. Storms Saturday night produced wind up to 78-miles per hour, hail up to the size of quarters, and 1.74 inches of rain in the Salina area. According to the National Weather Service, unseasonably hot ...

3 years ago
Damaging severe thunderstorms Saturday evening dropped heavy rain and large hail, along with wind clocked at 78 miles hour in the Salina area. Street flooding, downed powerlines, and debris on roads prompted  Saline County Emergency Management to initially discourage travel. At 8:39 PM a wind gust was clocked at 78 mph at the Salina Regional Airports as ...