4 years ago
Rolling Hills Zoo has big plans for some of its big cats. The zoo is beginning an effort to construct a new lion habitat. According to the zoo, mimicking the savanna grasslands of Africa, the native tall grass prairies of Kansas serve as the inspiration for Rolling Hills Zoo’s newest experience and lion habitat, The Pride ...

4 years ago
COVID cases and variants are on the increase in Saline County. According to the Saline County Health Department, there have been 17 new COVID cases in Saline County since Monday. There are 80 cases of the virus currently active. No additional deaths due to COVID has been reported in the past week. Salina Regional Health Center reported ...

4 years ago
Salina Regional Health Center has installed a first of its kind piece of medical equipment designed specifically for mothers who are nursing young children. According to the hospital, the first Mamava lactation pod in a Kansas health care facility is now inside the main lobby. The 4-foot by 8-foot pod gives a clean private space for visiting ...

4 years ago
Salina Police are searching for a stolen trailer and the thief who took it. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that sometime between July 16th and 19th, someone used a grinder to cut the lock off a hitch and drove off with a black, 2020 dump trailer owned by Construction Rental, 515 N. Broadway. The trailer was ...

4 years ago
A Salina couple was arrested after suspicious behavior prompted questions from a Saline County Sheriff's deputy. According to Captain Jim Hughes, around 1:50am Wednesday morning a deputy stopped to talk with a man and a woman who were in a pickup in the 200 block of South Penn. After a quick exchange the officer bid them ...

4 years ago
A chase ensues after a Salina police officer spots a teen throwing rocks at a car owned by St. Francis Ministries. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that a patrol officer jumped out of her cruiser and told a girl to stop throwing rocks at a Chevy Impala parked in the lot at St. Francis, 509 ...

4 years ago
Not once, but twice, vandals have hit the Salina Area United Way’s Community Action Mobile Outreach Van (CAMO). The vehicle is currently disabled and the agency needs funding to fix it. According to the United Way, firs  thieves targeting the catalytic converter stole and damaged more than $1,200 worth of equipment and wiring on the CAMO ...

4 years ago
Officials are investigating the death of an inmate at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. The Kansas Department of Corrections said 33-year-old Keith Wade died on Monday. The cause of death is not known at this time, but authorities believe it was not from COVID-19. Wade was more than four years into a seven-year sentence for battery of ...

4 years ago
Deb Marseline, associate director of field education and instructor in the Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus' social work program, has been promoted to assistant dean of diversity, equity and belonging. Marseline joined K-State Polytechnic in 2012 as an adjunct instructor in social work after working in her family business and as an adjunct instructor at Bethany ...

4 years ago
Some of them  have started rolling across the Midwest, and across Kansas, with a final destination of Salina. Oakdale Park will be a a flurry of activity Wednesday as some of the most iconic vehicle of all time begin arriving in Salina in advance of one of the biggest events of its kind in the ...

4 years ago
Free lunches for children in Salina who are out of school end this week. The USD 305 Free Summer Lunch Program will conclude on Friday. The last day for Grab-and-Go Lunches, which started being served curbside back on June 15th, is Friday July 23rd. The summer lunch program as is winding down as the district gets ...