2 years ago
The Kansas Highway Patrol will join other Kansas law enforcement agencies in an effort to enforce seatbelt laws in and around schools. According to the agency, the Seat Belts are For Everyone (SAFE) effort is a two-week seat belt enforcement beginning Monday, Feb. 20 to Friday, March 5. Troopers will focus on drivers and passengers in ...

2 years ago
Salina Regional Health Center and Ottawa County Health Center have entered into an agreement that will transition ownership of the COMCARE Minneapolis clinic to Ottawa County Health Center. According to Salina Regional Health Center, the clinic, which had leased space at Ottawa County Health Center, will become better operationally aligned with Ottawa County Health Center – ...

2 years ago
Hear about the latest in grant funding opportunities as well as how the North Central Regional Planning Commission can partner with your community or organization to build a successful future by attending one of three community connection events in the region. According to the organization, the events will be an opportunity to get to know the ...

2 years ago
A motorcycle rider was transported to the hospital in Salina following a collision near Beverly. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 25-year-old Joel McCosh from Beverly was riding a Suzuki motorcycle headed east on K 18 Highway. He struck the back passenger side of a Chevrolet Silverado pickup that made a left hand turn in front ...

2 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is joining nineteen other chief legal officers from around the nation to demand all information related to an anti-Catholic internal memo from a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) field office in Virginia to be released. According to the letter addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray: the ...

2 years ago
Authorities have located a truck in Ottawa County that was reportedly stolen from a Salina business. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that early Thursday morning a 3500 Chevy Silverado was stolen from the lot at L&S Electric located at 1051 W. Diamond Drive. Police viewed video of a suspect entering the vehicle and driving away. ...

2 years ago
The Salina Police Department is investigating a series of residential burglaries which occurred between February 13th and February 15th, 2023. The case is this week's Salina Crime Stoppers crime of the week. Police say the burglaries occurred in the west part of Salina in the following areas: 1600 block Beach St. 800 Custer St. 1300 block ...

2 years ago
Kansas Fiction Writers with book length works published in the past three years (2020/21/22) are eligible to win the $1,000 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Fiction. The annual award, rotating between poetry, fiction and nonfiction is sponsored by the Thomas Fox Averill Kansas Studies Collection at Washburn University in Topeka and the Friends of Mabee ...

2 years ago
A triple show is coming to the Stiefel Theatre in Salina this Summer. Trombone Shorty, Ziggy Marley, and Mavis Staples are all coming for one big night of music. It’s been a remarkable year for Trombone Shorty, who released his most recent album, Lifted, last April.  He performed “Shotgun” at the MusiCares Person of the Year ...

2 years ago
A man who trespassed inside several schools in Manhattan was arrested on Thursday. According to the Riley County Police Department, officers were called to Susan B. Anthony Middle School around 7:30 a.m. Thursday to a report of a suspicious man in the building during the arrival time of students. This person was stopped by school staff, ...

2 years ago
Flags across Kansas are flying at half-staff to honor those who have lost their lives to COVID. According to Governor Laura Kelly's office, in honor of the 10,000 Kansans lost due to COVID-19 and the families they left behind, Governor Laura Kelly today directed flags be lowered to half-staff throughout the state effective immediately to sundown ...