6 years ago
With election day Tuesday nearly here the candidates for Kansas Governor are crisscrossing the state in an attempt to woo voters who may still be undecided. The Kris Kobach campaign rolled into Salina on Sunday afternoon for a campaign stop. Along with Kobach was his running mate Wink Hartment and Kansas State Treasurer Jake LaTurner. The ...

6 years ago
A single vehicle crash on Interstate 70 that authorities say was caused by a distracted driver sent a Colorado woman to the hospital in Salina. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a Toyota was driving west in the passing lane. The driver became distracted by something in the vehicle. The Toyota drifted into the median, hit ...

6 years ago
An Ottawa County man was killed in a crash involving a car and a motorcycle near Bennington Sunday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2017 Nissan Altima passenger car was stopped on K-18  Highway waiting to turn north onto 170th Road. The car made a left turn in front of an oncoming 1986 Suzuki ...

6 years ago
Fort Riley is beginning its annual Operation Santa Claus program this week. According to the Army Post, Operation Santa Claus is an annual program in its 34th year. The Fort Riley community, along with the help of Santa Claus, helps needy children and their families by providing gifts for local children of active-duty service members during ...

6 years ago
Dozens of tow trucks from across Kansas gathered in Salina Saturday morning to pay tribute to a colleague who was killed in a crash earlier this week. Late Tuesday afternoon 32-year-old Jacob "Jake" Palmer was driving a 2014 Western Star Wrecker.  The wrecker rolled into a ditch along the southbound lanes of the Kansas Turnpike in Sumner ...

6 years ago
Drone test flights over farmland this week were aimed at giving Kansas a leg up in the growing world of unmanned aircraft. Director of Aviation at Kansas Department of Transportation Bob Brock tells KSAL News that the test flights near Gypsum will help transportation officials glean important field data in the UAS industry, proving the technology ...

6 years ago
Salina Police arrested a man on Thursday for trespassing then discovered he had some stolen items from a Salina transportation company. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that officers were called to the Salina Rescue Mission located at 1716 Summers Road after staff discovered a man on the second floor housing area who refused to ...

6 years ago
The latest Crime Stoppers crime occurred in rural southwest Salina County back at the end of Sept. Saline County Lt. Michael Ascher tells KSAL News that somebody attempted to steal a Lincoln welder that was attached to the back of a 1995 Chevrolet pickup truck parked at Smoky Hill Feeders, 11513 S. Soderberg Rd. The crime ...

6 years ago
US troops are on their way the Mexican border. Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas arrived in Harlingen, Texas yesterday as part of the first wave of more than five-thousand troops being deployed to the southern border. President Trump said he could deploy as many as 15-thousand troops leading up to the arrival of the caravan of Central ...

6 years ago
Family and friends are looking for a Salina teen who has been missing since the middle of October. Kansas Missing and Unsolved tells KSAL News 17-year-old Danae "Nae" Renfro went missing from Salina on October 17, 2018. Danae has dirty blonde hair, that she is known to dye and hazel eyes. She is 5’3″ tall and weighs ...

6 years ago
Law enforcement personnel in Harper County are on the hunt for dozens of stolen cattle. That's the word from the county sheriff's office, which posted on its Facebook page this week that thieves had made off with 35 red-and-black calves, six 12-hundred-pound red-and-black cows, and one two-thousand-pound black bull. All the missing bovines are reportedly sporting blue ...