2 years ago
In an effort to attract a more inclusive legislature, state officials are moving ahead with plans to double lawmakers' pay in 2025. State officials say a members of a commission to study lawmakers' pay yesterday approved a proposal to increase almost double the current compensation for rank-and-file members to just under 58 thousand dollars per year. Salaries ...

2 years ago
A woman returns home to her apartment to find a stranger sleeping on her couch. Salina Police Sergeant Kyle Tonniges tells KSAL News that officers were sent to the 2000 block of Glendale Road around 12:35am Friday to investigate the report of an intruder. Police say 33-year-old Derrick Stewart had moved some furniture around, ate a fruit ...

2 years ago
The operators of a high-profile Wichita manufacturing plant will pay more than a quarter of a million dollars to resolve alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act. Officials with BG Products has agreed to pay a $258,978 civil penalty after it reportedly failed to adequately explain how the company would prevent and respond to potential ...

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 ...