11 months ago
AARP Kansas invites local eligible non-profit organizations and governments across the country to apply for the 2025 AARP Community Challenge grant program, now through March 5, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. AARP Community Challenge grants fund quick-action projects that help communities become more livable by improving public places, transportation, housing, digital connections, and more. Now in its ninth year, the ...

11 months ago
From coast to coast, including in Kansas, more than 68,000 people spent the first day of 2025 enjoying the outdoors on a First Day Hike in America’s State Parks. The annual New Year’s Day tradition included guided hikes, bike rides, 5K races, history tours, horseback rides, polar plunges, in more than 1,100 state parks across ...

11 months ago
City of Salina crews continue working at getting roads cleared. Crews are still working on plowing paths in residential areas, and clearing snow out of the downtown area. Crews are operating 11 plow trucks, two motor graders, one wheel loader, and a tractor with box plow to the make City’s approximately 750 miles of roadway passable. They ...

11 months ago
A Kansas legislator renewed attempts to rid the state of daylight saving time under a bill filed ahead of the state’s 2025 legislative session, which begins later this month. Senate Bill 1, which was prefiled Friday, seeks to exempt Kansas from participating in the national practice of switching clocks back an hour every November and forward ...

11 months ago
Theater lovers and art lovers unite! A beautiful collection of artwork by the talented Art is Ageless artists from Salina Presbyterian Manor is now on exhibit at Theatre Salina. The exhibit accompanies the theatre’s main stage production of “Birthday Candles,” a play that runs January 3 – 19. According to Presbyterian Manor, the exhibit is the ...

11 months ago
Bethany College is welcoming a new member to its leadership team.  Christina Highsmith is the new Director of Marketing and Communications at the college in Lindsborg.  According to the school, Highsmith brings a wealth of experience in nonprofit marketing, media, and creative collaborations, making her an exceptional fit for Bethany's mission to foster academic and personal ...

11 months ago
Kansas Highway Patrol Staff from Troop C in Salina have been hard at work responding to over 300 hundred calls for service dealing with continuing impacts of the winter storm, along with the agency's air support staff who rescued 5 stranded motorists in North Central Kansas. According to the agency, from 6 AM on January 4 ...

11 months ago
A select few of Salina Downtown businesses are back and operating after the snowstorm. The city of Salina and its local businesses that were effected by the record-breaking snowstorm are progressing. Salina Downtown Executive Director, Leslie Bishop tells KSAL News the city faced many challenges due to the snow. "The city of Salina is responsible for so ...

11 months ago
Saline County Commissioners formally declared a State of Local Disaster Emergency during Tuesday's board meeting after a record-breaking 13+ inches of snow fell across the county in a single day. Emergency Management Director Michelle Weis presented the resolution, following a verbal declaration by Commission Chair Joe Hay, Jr. on January 4. This declaration allows Saline County to ...

11 months ago
A man restricts a woman's airway and allegedly threatened to kill her. Salina Police Captain Jim Feldman tells KSAL News yesterday at about 3:15 pm, a woman from Kansas City, MO was with a Salina man in the 1600 block of Beverly. When the woman decided to leave the residence, the man became upset and started ...

11 months ago
The Salina Symphony will kick off the new year with a concert of uplifting music and exuberant rhythms that includes one of Tchaikovsky’s most popular symphonies, an avant-garde work performed by a world-renowned cellist, and the unveiling of a new composition by Symphony conductor and music director Yaniv Segal. “I like to present a variety of ...