7 years ago
Saturday morning it will be out with the old, in with the new. The 2018 version of Sculpture Tour Salina will be unveiled. The 22 sculptures that have been in Downtown Salina for the past year have come down to make way for a group of new ones, which will be unveiled simultaneously on Saturday, May ...

7 years ago
Get outdoors and celebrate your place in nature and your community at Discover Salina Naturally, this Sunday, May 6, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Lakewood Park. This one-of-a-kind festival was voted finalist in the Salina Journal’s Readers’ Choice Awards for a community event in 2016 and 2017. It introduces young families to local history, ...

7 years ago
Salina Police are looking for a man and woman who sparked a road rage fist fight and then drove away. Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that on Wednesday afternoon, a 25-year-old woman from Gypsum was driving her car near the intersection of State and Broadway when she noticed a red van tailgating her. Moments later the ...

7 years ago
Kansas officials are helping people with past convictions to more easily find a job. Governor Jeff Colyer signed an executive order yesterday to "ban the box." The measure prevents state agencies from requiring people seeking jobs to mark a box on their applications which asks if they have ever been found guilty of a crime. State agencies ...

7 years ago
Graduation ceremonies for Salina Area Technical College’s Class of 2018 will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5 at the Stiefel Theater in downtown Salina. The guest speaker will be Dustin Pestinger of Pestinger’s Heating and Air Conditioning and president of the college’s Board of Trustees. There are 110 in the graduating class, of which 45 ...

7 years ago
A tornado that first touched down Tuesday night in rural Saline County and stayed on the ground for nearly a half hour before dissipating in rural Ottawa County has been rated an EF-3 by the National Weather Service. According to the agency the tornado had a peak wind of 140 miles per hour. The half-mile wide ...

7 years ago
Damage reports continue to flood in from the tornado that struck the extreme northwest corner of Saline County and southern portions of Ottawa County on Tuesday night. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that there was damage to property in the 6200 block of N. Brookville Rd. in the far northwest corner of Saline ...

7 years ago
Salina Police have arrested a Salina man with the help of a K-9 sniffing unit to find the fleeing suspect. Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that police were called to the 100 block of N. Wisconsin in regards to a domestic disturbance on Wednesday at 2:20 p.m. At the residence, police were told by a ...

7 years ago
A local blues-rock group will headline this week's Friday Night Live event in downtown Salina. According to Salina Arts and Humanities, Friday Night Live is a series of arts and entertainment programming for Salina residents and visitors, to increase attendance and participation in arts-related events and to strengthen local-business partnerships in the downtown arts district. On Friday, ...

7 years ago
It's graduation time at Kansas State University with commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 5, at Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus in Salina and Friday, May 11, and Saturday, May 12, on the main campus in Manhattan. Nearly 3,400 students are candidates for graduation. To be awarded will be more than 2,700 bachelor's, nearly 660 master's, about 90 ...

7 years ago
Professional pilot students on the Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus have a new option to consider in their career search and it includes significant financial assistance toward one of their flight certificates. Kansas State University is partnering with Mesa Airlines, a regional carrier based in Arizona, to create the Mesa Airlines and Kansas State University Pilot ...