5 months ago
The Saline County Food Access Community Team (FACT) has launched a new website, designed to serve as a central hub for information, resources, and community engagement on food access and food security issues in Saline County. The Saline County FACT is a food policy council dedicated to addressing food insecurity and improving access to healthy, affordable ...

5 months ago
Phone and internet services are vital to accessing healthcare and community services, finding employment, and calling for help in an emergency. However, the cost to stay connected is out of reach for many Kansans. In observance of Lifeline Awareness Week, September 8-14, the Kansas Corporation Commission joins utility regulators nationwide in creating awareness of the Lifeline ...

5 months ago
Salina first responders will pause to remember, and honor their brother and sister firefighters who gave the ultimate sacrifice 23 years ago. A couple of September 11th remembrance events are planned for Wednesday. On Wednesday, September 11th, a "Tribute to Heroes Memorial Service” will be held at Fire Station 1, 222 W. Elm Street, at 8:00 AM. ...

5 months ago
The Kansas secretary of state said in a letter to the U.S. postmaster general that approximately 1,000 August primary voters in Kansas were disenfranchised because ballots mailed before Election Day in August arrived in county offices more than three days after the deadline or without an essential postmark. Secretary of State Scott Schwab, a Republican who ...

5 months ago
An altercation at the intersection of Antrim Avenue and 4th Street leads to a search warrant and the arrest of a Salina man on multiple charges. Police Captain Jim Feldman tells KSAL that 30-year-old Justin Smull was arrested on Friday after a fight prompted a neighbor to call authorities. Police say Smull and a 31-year-old man ...

5 months ago
A Salina man is facing robbery charges after a domestic disturbance. Police Captain Jim Feldman tells KSAL News that on Saturday evening at 6pm, officers were sent to the 800 block of South 5th Street to check on a disturbance involving several members in a house. Police say a 59-year-old woman told authorities how her phone was ...

5 months ago
A Salina man was arrested for breaking a window after grocery store staff asked him to leave the premises. According to Police Captain Jim Feldman, 56-year-old Graig Gilbert was taken into custody on Saturday after he allegedly used a chunk of concrete to smash a 6-foot by 4-foot window at the Dillon's Grocery on West Crawford. Damage ...

5 months ago
A Salina woman was taken into custody after she allegedly pointed a knife at her roommate. Police Captain Jim Feldman tells KSAL News that on Friday night, officers were sent to an apartment complex in the 2300 block of Chapel Ridge Place to investigate a domestic disturbance. Police say an argument over a missing item took a ...

5 months ago
A person is under arrest after allegedly brandishing a gun at the Kansas State Fair. The Kansas Highway Patrol says that the gun was seized from a person at the fairgrounds in Hutchinson on Friday. The suspect was booked for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for possession of a firearm while intoxicated.

5 months ago
The victim of a deadly crash in Harvey County is identified. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 22-year-old Aubrie Lakey was walking in the southbound lanes of I-135 in Newton on Saturday night when she was struck by a southbound vehicle. Lakey died at the scene, and no other injuries were reported.

5 months ago
The thirty-foot Viking that welcomes all to Lindsborg didn't happen overnight. In fact artists Cal and Allena McNichols spent about four years planning and fundraising for the mural that dominates the north wall of the Trollslända Toy Store in downtown. Over the summer the creative couple marked the completion of the their fifth mural project in ...