6 years ago
The Department for Children and Families along with its community partners is distributing food to Kansans as part of the disaster household distribution program. The program is triggered when a national emergency is declared. The program provides a variety of canned meats, vegetables, fruits, rice, dried beans, peanut butter and in some cases frozen meats and ...

6 years ago
As the 2019/2020 school year winds down , USD 305 Superintendent Linn Exline is gathering ideas from staff and preparing an arsenal of solutions for teachers next year. "We want to be ready no matter what the landscape looks like at that point when August comes," she said. [audio mp3="https://www.ksal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Linn-2.mp3"][/audio]   USD 305 and school districts around the state ...

6 years ago
Kansas saw for the second day in-a-row its largest rise in new infections of COVID-19 from Wednesday to Thursday. The Kansas Department of Health & Environment says that 271 Kansans tested positive for the virus over the past 24 hours--the largest daily statewide gain since the pandemic started. As of 9:45 a.m. Thursday, the KDHE says that ...

6 years ago
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is saying any reopening of non-essential businesses will be a gradual process. Kelly says she is working with local leaders on identifying conditions that will make it possible to reopen. The governor says factors in reopening will include a 14-day decline in new COVID-19 case numbers, testing, hospitalization numbers and the amount of ...

6 years ago
Salina Police are investigating a damage to property and theft case after an enclosed tool trailer was broken into. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that sometime between Monday and Wednesday, someone broke the locks on a Midwest double axle trailer that was parked in a backyard in the 100 block of S. 11th Street. Once ...

6 years ago
The Salina City Commission approved an alternate staffing plan prepared by city staff to temporarily reduce the schedules of its workforce possibly through the end of the year in an effort to compensate for projected budget shortfalls due to the COVID-19 outbreak and statewide stay-at-home orders. According to the city, the action includes a furlough for ...

6 years ago
Tony’s Pizza Events Center and Great Plains Manufacturing have teamed up for tickets to what they say is the most important event ever – the "STAY AT HOME: Save A Life Tour". According to the Tony’s Pizza Events Center, they have created a limited-edition "STAY AT HOME: Save a Life Tour" ticket which is now available ...

6 years ago
On a day where the state of Kansas saw it's biggest single-day increase of confirmed COVID-19 cases there were no new confirmed cases in Saline County. According to the Saline County Health Department,  Saline County is holding steady with 17 conformed cases of the virus. There also have been two COVID-19 related deaths locally.  Saline County ...

6 years ago
New cases of COVID-19 jumped by nearly 200 from Tuesday to Wednesday in Kansas. According to the Kansas Department of Health & Environment, they released the latest numbers at 11 a.m. Wednesday and say that 2,211 Kansans have contracted COVID-19, while 110 people have died due to complications of the disease. The increase in new cases is ...

6 years ago
A Salina woman is in a Wichita hospital after suffering serious injuries in a single vehicle crash. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that the crash occurred at 7:27 p.m., Tuesday in the 400 block of W. Watkins Rd., or about a half mile east of N. Lightville Rd.; north and west of Salina. Soldan ...

6 years ago
A two-car crash north and east of Salina sends a woman to the hospital. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that the accident occurred at 2:55 p.m. on Monday at the intersection of N. Marymount Rd. and Old Highway 40. A 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee being driven northbound by Roger Mattison, 67, Salina, on Marymount ...