3 years ago
One of the busiest weekends of Memorial Day Weekend travel ever is anticipated. AAA expects travel for Memorial Day weekend  to surpass pre-pandemic levels, signaling a true return to pre-2020 travel levels. The agency projects 42.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home, a 7% increase over 2022. This year, 2.7 million more ...

3 years ago
A nationally-known advocate for Missing in Action / POW soldiers and their families will speak in Salina on Memorial Day at the Saline County War Memorial in Sunset Park as a new site at the war memorial will be unveiled and dedicated to 11 POWs from Saline County and Major Dennis Pugh, USN, still MIA. According ...

3 years ago
A new memorial to Saline County prisoners of war and missing in action will be dedicated on Memorial Day. According to the Sons of the American Legion Squadron 62, they will pay tribute to POWs and to Maj. Dennis Pugh at an unveiling and dedication ceremony on Monday. A new site at the Salina-Saline County War ...

3 years ago
A suspect in an attempted murder is under arrest in Colorado. Coy Sherrill was arrested during a traffic stop in Silt, Colorado, on Monday. Sherill allegedly stabbed a man in Herington on May 18th.

3 years ago
Owners of the Keystone pipeline knew a defect had formed years before the strain finally caused the pipeline to burst and flood a Kansas creek with oil last year. The Keystone pipeline, owned by TC Energy, burst near the Kansas-Nebraska border late last year, spilling almost 13,000 barrels of oil onto adjacent farmland and into Mill ...

3 years ago
In the final day of her search for the Smoky Hill River Festival Medallion, Sheri Chase Jones was looking for something hanging in a grate - and she found it in the 7th Street parking lot alleyway just behind Ad Astra Books and Coffee. A note rolled up in a bottle that was hanging down in ...

3 years ago
Four students from the Kansas State University Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus are preparing to compete this summer in a national flight racing competition. The Women's Air Race Classic is an annual competition featuring only female pilots. Competitors will travel from point to point across 10 states, taking off from Grand Forks, North Dakota, and crossing the finish line in Homestead, Florida. The ...

3 years ago
It's a sure sign summer is here. Salina's Kenwood Cove water park is ready to open for the summer. Salina’s Kenwood Cove Aquatic Park, which first opened in May 0f 2010, is ready for the summer swim season. The water park will open for the season this Saturday. It takes about 25 lifeguards for Kenwood Cove to ...

3 years ago
A former Hutchinson police officer is headed to prison for sex crimes and breach of privacy. Fifty-one-year-old Todd Allen was sentenced to 23-and-a-half years in prison for a series of sex crimes that took place between 2012 and 2018. The sentence was handed down after Allen agreed with the Reno County District Court on a plea deal. He ...

3 years ago
An additional act has been added to this year's SM Hanson Music Smoky Hill River Festival Jam. According to Rick Hanson, a seventeenth band to has been added to Festival Jam. This new spot is by invitation. The band will play at 5:45. This year’s invitation band is a group of young musicians from Salina Central High ...

3 years ago
Police are investigating a damage to property case after a glass door was shattered at a Salina liquor store. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that sometime Friday between 12:30pm and 4:30pm, a white male walked up to the front door and broke the glass at Countryside Liquor, 2448 North 9th. Police say video shows the ...