3 years ago
Friday afternoon Rolling Hills Zoo broke ground on their new Pride of the Prairie experience, ushering in a new era at the zoo. According to the zoo, with the existing lion habitat in the background, Rolling Hills Zoo’s Executive Director, Ryan VanZant, welcomed the crowd to what will soon be the entrance of the new Pride ...

3 years ago
A Salina radio personality spent the bulk of the day Friday on the roof of a downtown restaurant, braving a strong wind and cold wind chill, in an effort to raise money for the Salina Area United Way. The United Way partnered with Salina radio station group Meridian Media and Taco John’s to raise $5,000 for ...

3 years ago
There have been 61  new COVID cases in Saline County since Wednesday and no new deaths. According to the Saline County Health Department there are currently 484 active cases of the virus in the community. Salina Regional Health Center reports they have 13 patients in the hospital battling the virus. Overall, 166 people have now died in Saline ...

3 years ago
Following a mother's push to reopen a case, a man is facing multiple felony charges in connection with a 2018 fatal crash in Dickinson County. According to the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office,  on February 16th, 2018, Isaac Johnson was killed in an automobile accident.  The driver and two other passengers in the vehicle were injured. Earlier this ...

3 years ago
A driver was arrested following a high pursuit along Interstate which ended in a construction area in Dickinson County. According to the Dickinson County Sheriff's Office, in the early morning hours of Wednesday their agency was notified the Geary County Sheriff’s Office was pursuing a 2015 Ford Mustang, reported stolen from Wichita, westbound on Interstate 70.  ...

3 years ago
The 3,500th arrest in the Salina's Most Wanted program has been made. According to the Saline County Sheriff's Office,  Christopher Uebelher is the 6th person from the November most wanted list, and the 3,500th overall since the program began back in July of 2000. He was wanted for felony drug crimes. The first weekend of each month ...

3 years ago
Republican lawmakers say they have enough signatures to call for the first special legislative session in Kansas history. Speaker Ron Ryckman, House Majority Leader Dan Hawkins and Speaker Pro Tem Blaine Finch issued a joint statement yesterday announcing that lawmakers would return to Topeka on November 22nd to discuss two bills. One reportedly would require Kansas ...

3 years ago
A forestry skid loader is a complete loss after it was burned up Thursday morning. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that it happened around 11:13 a.m. in the 3900 block of S. Woodward Road. A 60-year-old Delphos man was working on some trees with the ASV PT-100 loader when the fire started. It is ...

3 years ago
Kansas budget officials are increasing the state's projected revenues for this fiscal year. If that one-point-three-billion-dollar budget figure comes to fruition, lawmakers say the state could finish the 2022 fiscal year with a $2.89-billion-dollar budget surplus. Leaders on both sides of the aisle say such a surplus could enable lawmakers to consider eliminating the current state tax ...

3 years ago
A southeast Kansas firefighter is dead, nearly one month after he was critically burned while fighting a residential fire. According to a spokesperson for the Baxter Springs Fire Department, Lieutenant Malachi Brown died yesterday at a Springfield, Missouri hospital. The volunteer firefighter reportedly had been in a medically induced coma since he was injured in an ...

3 years ago
Police are asking for the public's' help in locating a suspected thieves caught on camera. The crime is this week's Salina Crime Stoppers crime of the week. Police say on November 7th a 39-year old Salina resident reported his wallet missing. The victim then received notification that his credit cards were being used at Walmart, 2900 ...