5 years ago
A man and woman were injured in a two car crash on Friday evening. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that 33-year-old Krystle Blochlinger of Salina and 66-year-old Donald Fiell of Salina were both taken to the hospital after the accident at intersection of Argonne and Eastmoor Drive at about 5:20pm. Police say Fiell was cited ...

5 years ago
Police are looking for vandals that used spray paint to damage three vehicles in a Salina neighborhood. According to Captain Paul Forrester, sometime between 8pm Thursday and noon on Friday, someone walked by or perhaps rode a bike past two vehicles parked in the 700 block of Spruce and sprayed them with red and silver paint. During ...

5 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a business burglary after a vehicle was stolen from an auto dealer. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that sometime between 7:30pm Saturday and Sunday evening at 6:30pm someone entered Salina Used Cars, 833 E. Crawford and stole an employees car plus a high-end diagnostic tool. Police say a $4,000 Snap-on vehicle code ...

5 years ago
As summer draws to a close, the next couple of weeks are when most Kansas students return back to schools across the state. AAA Kansas warns drivers to be especially vigilant for pedestrians during before- and after-school hours. Nearly one-third of all child pedestrian fatalities in the United States occur between 3 p.m. and 7 ...

5 years ago
Teachers returned to classrooms at Salina USD 305 Schools last week. This week students will join them. Tuesday ushers in the beginning of the 2019-20 school year for Salina USD 305 students in grades 1-5 (K screenings by appointment) and grades 6 and 9. (No school for grades 7, 8, 10, 11, 12.) Wednesday, students in ...

5 years ago
A large crowd of people gathered Sunday for the final big swim of the summer at Salina's Kenwood Cove water park. Families were able to  enjoy a final big day together in the Summer sun, many of them getting into the pool for free, before kids head back to school beginning this week. Rocking M Media Salina ...

5 years ago
Nestled a few miles on each side of the  US 81/24 Junction, in Cloud County, Kansas, there is a little school district with a little band that could. The Southern Cloud band was recently awarded an $11,960.00 Dane G. Hanson Grant to purchase new instruments. Southern Cloud school district consists of approximately 120 students. Each community of ...

5 years ago
Smoky Hills Public Television’s summer reading program, Share a Story, visited 71 communities across central and western Kansas this past June and July.  There were 1650 children and 625 adults that attended the 71 presentations held in partnership with the local libraries. During the Share a Story presentation, children watched a clip from a PBS Kids ...

5 years ago
The distinctive smell of hemp now wafts through certain test plots at multiple K-State Research and Extension sites across Kansas. The end goal is to find out whether it’s also the smell of money for farmers seeking a valuable new rotational crop. The first test crops of industrial hemp have been growing for about two months at ...

5 years ago
A large fire badly damaged a Western Kansas meat processing facility. According to the Garden City Police Department, first responders were called Friday night at 8:35 to the report of a fire inside the Tyson Fresh Meats Finney County plant. Multiple agencies responded to the facility, which is located in Holcomb. The fire was not brought ...

5 years ago
Kansas students can win great prizes and learn about traffic safety by participating in poster and video contests as part of the annual Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day safety campaign. In addition, the school, class or booster club of the grand prize-winning students will also receive money as part of the contest prizes. Poster contest: For ...