9 years ago
A bicycle/pedestrian path north of Iron Avenue Brick crosswalks Black powder coated intersection lighting Pedestrian lighting and traffic signals A HAWK pedestrian signal On-street bicycle lanes There are still a few things to add before the project is totally finished, including striping for the bicycle lanes which is scheduled to be added during the third week of April. Salina City Engineer Dan ...

9 years ago
The Kansas Department of Agriculture promotes public safety by regulating the production and sale of food products in Kansas. The Food Safety and Lodging program is responsible for food safety inspections of food establishments, food processors and lodging establishments. Food establishments are operations that provide food directly to the end consumer, with or without charge. Food establishments ...

9 years ago
Efforts to push the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) into serving Salina continue as a new month arrives. Scheduled flights to Denver that were to begin taking off from Salina Regional Airport on April 1 are on hold for now. "The TSA has a $7.5 billion dollar budget and they cannot find $375 thousand dollars annually to screen ...

9 years ago
Westar Energy will return millions of dollars to Kansas energy customers under a settlement with regulators. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved the settlement between Westar Energy and the Kansas Corporation Commission. The settlement lowers the return on equity the company had previously included in its Transmission Delivery Charge tariff. On ...

9 years ago
Salina Community Theatre and Kansas Wesleyan University are teaming up to bring "Into The Woods" to the stage. "This is the first one in what we hope is going to be a long line of productions and partnership with Kansas Wesleyan," said Michael Spicer, Executive Director of SCT. Spicer joined in on the KSAL Morning News Thursday ...

9 years ago
A couple of burglaries highlight Thursday's Salina Police log. A burglary was reported at 1012 Pershing. Sometime between Tuesday at 1pm and Wednesday at 2:30 pm a window was broke to gain entry to the home. Item taken include a non-working red Fusion 49cc moped, a JVC floor model 50 inch TV, a metal computer stand, ...

9 years ago
A Salina man was arrested Wednesday afternoon after allegedly leaving his two young children home alone. Police allege that 30-year-old Raymond Tolson left two children, a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old, home alone at a house while he left to run some errands. Captain Mike Sweeney says that the children were left alone at a home in the ...

9 years ago
A small  fire in the ventilation system prompted the evacuation of one of Salina's largest employers overnight. Saline County Undersheriff Roger Soldan says that firefighters were called to the Salina Exide Facility at 413 E. Berg Road at around 11:30 Wednesday night to the report of a fire in the duct work in the building.  As ...

9 years ago
Jurors are deliberating whether to recommend the death penalty for an eastern Kansas man convicted of killing four people. The jurors were meeting Thursday in Franklin County, where they convicted 30-year-old Kyle Flack last week of capital murder in the deaths of 21-year-old Kaylie Bailey and her 18-month-old daughter, Lana. He also was convicted of premeditated first-degree ...

9 years ago
Salina Police have released security photos from a convenience store robbery, and are asking for the public's help in identifying the suspect. Earlier this week, at 1:10 in the morning on Tuesday, a man with a gun robbed the Kwik Shop at 657 Fairdale. A white male entered the store, displayed a black semi automatic handgun, and ...

9 years ago
Rolling Hills Zoo has made the cover of one of the most beloved nature magazines in the world. Joel Sartore's Photo Ark project is the cover story for National Geographic magazine's April issue. According to the zoo, Rolling Hills Zoo worked with Sartore on the project. For the first time in National Geographic's history, they are publishing ...