5 years ago
There is a team in Salina that is mentioned in the same breath as the universities of Texas and Wisconsin, schools that average more than 45,000 additional students in their population. It has hit the same heights as Ryerson University in Canada, a massive 44,000-student institution, and it is far better than any other school ...

5 years ago
About 33 percent of Saline County residents have now been vaccinated against COVID-19. The goal is to vaccinate at least 70 percent. According to the Saline County Health Department, they have now vaccinated about 17,900 members of the community against COVID-19. According to Saline County Health officer Jason Tiller, about 500 people were vaccinated within the last ...

5 years ago
Police are searching for a UHaul trailer that had been parked in a business' parking lot. Video surveillance shows two subjects in a pickup drive on to the lot at 167 N. Broadway Blvd. at 12:30 a.m., on April 21 and drive away with the trailer. The trailer is 6 foot by 12 foot long ...

5 years ago
A couple of high school students from Salina have ranked nationally in a foreign language competition. According to USD 305, Alena Tran-Nguyen and Diana Geist of Salina High School South have ranked nationally in the 86th Le Grand Concours, a national competition sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French. Students were evaluated for their written, oral, ...

5 years ago
A 14-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in the face in a park in Southwest Kansas. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Ulysses Police Department are investigating after a Ulysses teen was shot in a park on Wednesday evening. According to the KBI, at approximately 6:30 p.m. Wednesday a resident who lives near the ...

5 years ago
Join the Smoky Hill Museum as it celebrates the birth, growth and change of downtown in a new exhibit, The Crossroads. The exhibit opens Friday and it runs through March 26th, 2022. According to the museum, in 1858, the story of Salina began with a group of six individuals who envisioned a community on the central plains ...

5 years ago
Salina Police, along with a grieving mother, are asking for the public's help in locating a murder suspect. Back on February 23rd, 36-year-old Courtney Ann Hoffman was shot to death in a vehicle in front of her home at 731 N. 4th Street. A couple of days later an arrest warrant for 1st Degree Murder was issued ...

5 years ago
A motorist is hurt when his truck is smacked by another truck that failed to stop at a stop sign east of Salina. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that the wreck occurred at the intersection of Simpson Rd. and E. Country Club Rd. at 4:01 p.m., Wednesday. Keith Cole, 32, Salina, was driving his ...

5 years ago
The top student employee at Kansas State University is a senior in airport management from the Kansas State Polytechnic Campus. Jazstyn "Jaz" Moyer, a senior from Ulysses, has been named the winner of K-State's Kyle Pelton Student Employee of the Year award, presented by K-State Career Services to recognize the importance of the student work experience. Selection is based ...

5 years ago
Kansans are encouraged to wear blue this week on Friday and post a picture on social media with the hashtag #WearBlueDay to increase awareness of child abuse. According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's Office, the effort is part of April’s observance of Child Abuse Prevention Month and the Blue Ribbon Campaign to Prevent Child Abuse. “Keeping ...

5 years ago
Donors responded in droves for last week’s inaugural Giving Day at Fort Hays State University. According to the school, more than $270,000 was pledged in a 48-hour period. Just as FHSU banded together as a family throughout a year unlike any other, we came together once again to #SupportTheFort. The success of FHSU’s first Giving Day ...