3 years ago
Full details of the rescheduled Smoky Hill River Festival were unveiled at a media event Tuesday morning. The 45th Smoky Hill River Festival will be Labor Day Weekend, Thursday to Sunday, September 2-5 . The festival of the arts will feature 4 stages,158 artists,151 performances, and 35 food vendors. The headliner acts set to debut on the Eric ...

3 years ago
You can’t fill the boots of a legend, but KWU alumnus Kiefer Storrer ’13 is excited to try. He was recently hired as Kansas Wesleyan’s head debate and forensics coach, where he will take the reins from longtime coach Gary Harmon. “It’s hard for anyone to follow such a successful person, but I’m excited to do it. I know that I’m capable of doing it,” Storrer ...

3 years ago
The clown-princes of basketball are coming back to Salina. The World-Famous Harlem Globetrotters are bringing their newly reimagined Spread Game Tour in 2021 to over 150 cities starting on July 21 after being inactive due to the pandemic for over a year. The most famous basketball team in the world will play a game at ...

3 years ago
The week leading up to automated waste collection, July 12-16, the waste cart contractor will only be delivering new waste carts to City of Salina sanitation customers, but will not be removing any old carts. According to the City of Salina, beginning July 19, the waste cart contractor will be removing customers’ old City of Salina ...

3 years ago
The body of a drowning victim in Montgomery County is identified. Officials say the body of 47-year-old Craig Gilson was pulled from the Elk City Lake late Friday night. Gilson was spotted struggling in the lake on Friday afternoon before going underwater and never resurfacing.

3 years ago
Applications are now being accepted for the 27th Citizen's Academy that will be hosted by the Saline County Sheriff’s Office and Salina Police Department. Lt. Sean Kochanowski with the Saline County Sheriff’s Office tells KSAL News that applications are now available and being accepted through the end of July of 2021. Kochanowski says that the classes will ...

3 years ago
Tickets go on sale this week for the 75th anniversary of the Wild Bill Hickok Rodeo in Abilene.  The rodeo gallops into Abilene and is held in conjunction with the Central Kansas Free Fair. It will be held August 4-7. According to the rodeo, some of the best entertainers in the industry will be on hand ...

3 years ago
A juvenile suspect is in custody after the homicide of a 14-year-old Hesston girl Sunday night at a Newton residence. According to the Newton Police Department, just before 10 p.m. Sunday the 16-year-old male suspect arrived at a house in the 900 block of South Walnut where a group of teens were hanging out. Witnesses said ...

3 years ago
Salina Police are checking several video feeds from a few South Broadway businesses to find out who attacked a man and perhaps drug him with a cable around his neck. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that a staff member from the Travel Lodge, 241 S. Broadway called authorities on Friday afternoon after discovering the ...

3 years ago
Salina Police are investigating the theft and ransacking of vehicle from over the weekend. According to Captain Paul Forrester a 38-year-old woman was at the Hideaway Bar, 540 Willis Avenue with friends on Friday and noticed her keys were not with her cell phone on the table. Thinking her friends were pulling a joke on her, she ...

3 years ago
Fireworks are to blame for sparking a landfill fire in Hutchinson. Crews were called Friday night to the Reno County Landfill at 703 South Mohawk after the fire was spotted. Crews worked for four hours to move the burning trash to a different part of the landfill and cover it with dirt.