2 years ago
Authorities are releasing more information about yesterday's lockdown at Garden City Community College. Police say they got the call about a possible active-shooter situation in the school's Saffell Library just after 8 a.m. At roughly the same time, campus officials ordered a campus-wide lockdown. Officers arrested one person who allegedly told a library worker there was a ...

2 years ago
Salina Police are asking for the public's in locating a man suspected of entering a home and committing a robbery at gunpoint back in September. A victim was stabbed during the incident, which is the latest Salina Crime Stoppers crime of the week. According to Salina Police, on September 20th at 9:18 PM officers were dispatched ...

2 years ago
Access onto Interstate 70 from Junction City will be temporarily closed on Saturday. On Saturday the Kansas Department of Transportation plans to temporarily close two eastbound I-70 on-ramps ramps at Junction City in Geary County. According to the agency, from 12 to 6 p.m. the eastbound on-ramps at J Hill Road/Grandview Plaza (exit 299) and K-57 (exit ...

2 years ago
A Saline County Sheriff Deputy was involved in two-vehicle crash at a North Salina intersection Thursday afternoon. The crash happened at the intersection of State and Broadway. A witness at the scene told KSAL News she was coming down off the Broadway overpass headed south, with an SUV beside her. As she slowed to make a left ...

2 years ago
Great Western Entertainment to be Featured at Chisholm Trail events in Ellsworth Oct. 19-22 National award-winning cowboy musician R. W. Hampton will headline a weekend of western entertainment and programming in Ellsworth to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Ellsworth Cut-off from the famed Chisholm Trail.  Activities take place on October 19-22, 2023. “We’re pleased to offer ...

2 years ago
Kansas Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of Commerce David Toland was in Salina Wednesday, hosting a “Healthy Workers, Healthy Economy” Tour roundtable focused on how expanding Medicaid would address health care workforce shortages. According to the Governor's Office, this is the fifth stop on the statewide tour, which launched in Winfield last month and has included visits ...

2 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan University is preparing what could be one of  its biggest ever Homecoming celebrations in years. Homecoming at KWU is this Friday through Sunday. According to the school, Homecoming 2023 promises to be a great experience, filled with opportunities to connect with old friends, other alumni and current leaders of the KWU experience. Activities will begin ...

2 years ago
It wasn't something you see everyday. A large house, on a large flatbed trailer, with a police escort slowly making its way down one of the busiest streets in Salina. The 1940s bungalow-style home was donated by Trinity Lutheran Church to the Community Housing Development Corporation of Central Kansas. It was moved Wednesday afternoon from 728 ...

2 years ago
A woman from Herington was hurt in a crash near Gypsum involving a deer. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 66-year-old Debra Odell was driving a Toyota Camry headed west on K 4 Highway when a deer entered the road from the right ditch. She was unable to avoid hitting the deer. Odell was transported to Salina ...

2 years ago
A Salina man was taken to jail after coming unhinged at a group of teens in a Mustang Tuesday night. Police Lieutenant Jim Feldman tells KSAL News that 39-year-old Matthew Whitaker was arrested on five counts of aggravated battery and criminal damage to property after allegedly chasing down the 5 teens, in a Ford Mustang. Police say ...

2 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a residential burglary after someone ransacked a home just north of Salina. According to Sheriff Roger Soldan, last week, someone entered a house on a farmstead in the 2900 block of North 5th Street and stole multiple items including a collection of porcelain dolls, a 1939 Singer sewing machine, ...