4 years ago
Summer at the Library is here and recently Salina Public Library made a decision that will benefit the community’s youngest members. According to the library, all youth patrons (18 and younger) will have fees/fines forgiven up to $75. This includes more than 1,200 youth patrons. The move is designed to allow students to use the resources ...

4 years ago
Professional cowboys and cowgirls are headed back to Kansas to compete for $50,000 in prize money and points earned at the Bennington PRCA Rodeo. Dwayne Walls has helped organize forty-six of the forty-seven professional competitions that have kicked up the dirt in Bennington and says video replay has added a fun new feature for rodeo fans. [audio ...

4 years ago
Flags in Kansas have been lowered to half-staff in honor of the victims of the Texas school shooting. According to Governor Laura Kelly's Office, in honor of the 19 children and two adults killed in the mass shooting Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, she has directed flags be lowered to half-staff throughout the ...

4 years ago
Police are investigating a burglary from Monday morning at a bar in Salina. Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that the incident happened at 4:45 a.m. Monday at Bishop Street Tavern, located at 717 Bishop Street. Officers were sent to the business on Tuesday once the the business figured out about the burglary. Forrester said unreleased video ...

4 years ago
A California couple contributed $25 million to McPherson College in what officials said was the largest gift to a small, private liberal arts college in Kansas history. Melanie and Richard Lundquist, signers of the “Giving Pledge” promise to dedicate a majority of their wealth to charitable causes, announced the donation Sunday at the central Kansas college’s ...

4 years ago
Salina Area Technical College is accepting applications from individuals interested in serving on the college’s Board of Trustees. According to the school, the nine-member Board is the college’s governing body, and determines goals and direction for the institution. New Board members are appointed by the Board itself, and serve terms of three years, with terms starting ...

4 years ago
Students at Bethany College will benefit from one of the largest gifts in school history, a gift in excess of $3 million. According to the school, the gift comes from the extreme generosity of William and Barbara Gaeddert. William Kenneth Gaeddert graduated from Bethany College in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education. He was ...

4 years ago
Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan was one of five Kansas sheriffs to travel to the U.S. / Mexico border at the invitation of U.S. Senator Roger Marshall last week. Soldan joined in on the KSAL Morning News Extra Tuesday to cover a wide range of topics including drug and human traffickers that come over the border ...

4 years ago
A tip prompted by a social media post helped the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office bust a burglar who they believe stole from an adult entertainment store. According to the agency, Friday night  at approximately 9:53 deputies responded to Lion’s Den, located at 2349 Fair Road in Dickinson County, to a commercial business alarm.  They discovered a ...

4 years ago
A Salina Police Officer is among twenty new law enforcement officers who graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center on Friday. Salina Police Officer Marc Coletti was among the graduates, and also received a fitness award. According to the training center, Officer Daniel Harshbarger of the Rose Hill Police Department was the graduating class president. The ...

4 years ago
Two Salina businesses are involved in damage to property cases from over the weekend. Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that between May 19 and May 22, a wall and dumpster were spray painted in a stretch on S. Ninth Street. The south wall of MedExpress, located at 2770 S. Ninth, and a dumpster owner by ...