8 years ago
Kansas representatives in DC approve of  President Trump's State of the Union Address. Senator Pat Roberts praised the Trump Administration for lifting regulatory tax burdens for businesses and individuals. First District Congressman Roger Marshall noted that the President called for unity and strength. Marshall added he was touched by the people's stories mentioned during the speech. In ...

8 years ago
The man who built the Kansas City Royals into World Series champions brought a message of faith and motivation to Salina. Royals General Manager Dayton Moore was the featured speaker at the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet and Membership Meeting Tuesday night. Prior to the banquet event, Moore met with the media. He touched ...

8 years ago
Salina South will present the musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers this week. The show is Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in the school's auditorium. Set in the rough-and-tumble backwoods of Oregon in the 1850s, where every man still took for himself, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a delightful story about creating civilization in the wilderness. ...

8 years ago
A Salina woman returns home to discover numerous high end items stolen from her house. Police say sometime between 2pm on January 25 and noon January 29, someone entered her home in the 600 block of Johnstown and stole an antique table valued at $800 plus a number watches and pieces of jewelry. Two Samsung flat screen ...

8 years ago
A Salina man was taken into custody for allegedly inappropriately touching a teenage female while she slept at his home in the 1900 block of Gendale Road. Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that 50-year-old Brian R. Hunter was arrested after an adult female in her late teens contacted police on Sunday, telling officers she woke ...

8 years ago
Kansas' outgoing governor is issuing his final proclamation. Governor Sam Brownback on Friday signed a proclamation declaring today as a "Day of Prayer and Fasting" in Kansas. The proclamation comes as Brownback is set to leave office tomorrow afternoon to join the Trump Administration as the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom. Lieutenant Governor Jeff Colyer will ...

8 years ago
A piece of American space history will call central Kansas home. Workers at the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson will restore NASA's Johnson Space Center mission control center. The machines will be cleaned, painted and placed on display in time for the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. Cosmosphere officials say the restoration project will be complete by ...

8 years ago
For the second week in a row, Kansas is the sickest state in the country. According to Kinsa,  6.6% of the population (about 191,000 people) are experiencing flu-like symptoms. The national illness level is at 5% this week. Last year Kansas peaked at 5.3% ill and currently Kansas is 6.6% sick and climbing. Kinsa is a company that ...

8 years ago
A Salina shoplifter is facing additional charges after officers found his gun hidden under a mower. According to Captain Mike Sweeney, officers arrested 27-year-old Cameron Harrod on Saturday after he allegedly stole some trail mix and Snickers candy from the Dollar General at 654 S. Broadway and then fled on his bike. Using a description of Harrod, ...

8 years ago
A statewide Silver Alert for a missing Salina man was cancelled late Monday morning after he was found deceased. Authorities say that 89-year-old Gene Oliver Wolfe was found deceased earlier in the morning. Wolfe,  who suffers from Alzheimer’s and dementia, went missing late Saturday afternoon. He left his home, driving a car. Wolfe indicated that he was ...

8 years ago
A Saturday afternoon crash sends two drivers to the hospital to be evaluated. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that vehicles driven by 42-year-old Staci Duryea and 65-year-old Ronald Watkins collided in an uncontrolled intersection at Water Well Road and Donmyer Road Saturday around 1:30pm. Deputies say Duryea's eastbound 2009 Chevy Impala hit the passenger ...