5 years ago
Governor Laura Kelly and Department for Children and Families Secretary Laura Howard announced the agency will begin issuing an emergency food assistance benefit to current program households. The emergency allotment increases a household’s monthly benefit to the maximum allowed for the size of the family. The maximum monthly benefit for a family of four is ...

5 years ago
A matching commitment from Kansas Gas Service to the Salina Area United Way's COVID-19 Relief Fund is helping to make more grants available to those in need right now. Salina Area United Way says Kansas Gas Service will be matching dollar for dollar any funds raised for the SAUW COVID-19 Relief Fund up to ...

5 years ago
The Saline County Health Department does not have any new positive cases of COVID-19 to report on Wednesday. Saline County is holding steady with 13 confirmed cases and two deaths. The Health Department says they investigates communicable diseases every day. In some ways, disease investigation is a lot like detective work. They need to look at ...

5 years ago
A video of some Salina students playing the guitar together from their homes is capturing hearts. Over two dozen students logged in and participated in the "virtual guitar group". The students are part of Salina South Middle School's 8th grade Advanced Guitar Class. They all were playing "Stand by Me" from their homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic ...

5 years ago
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has extended a statewide stay at home order through May 3rd. Kansans are directed to stay home unless performing one of the following essential activities: Obtaining food, medicine and other household necessities; Going to and from work at a business or organization performing an essential function as identified in the Kansas Essential ...

5 years ago
New instances of COVID-19 rose by 68 cases over the last 24 hours in the state of Kansas. The Kansas Department of Health & Environment says that as of 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, there are 1,494 cases of the virus in the state with 76 related deaths. Meanwhile, 13 people have now had the disease in Saline County ...

5 years ago
Salina Police are trying to track down property that was stolen from a storage unit. Salina Police Capt. Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that between Sunday at 8:30 p.m. and Tuesday at 5:15 p.m., someone appears to have broken in through the back wall of a storage unit belonging to Vince Grizzle, 46, Salina, at Storage ...

5 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a theft at a rural construction site in the western part of the county. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that sometime between April 7 at 5 p.m. and April 8 at 7 a.m., someone forced their way in to a construction trailer in the 2200 block ...

5 years ago
The Kansas Department of Labor is working to fix its unemployment website. Officials say the mainframe crashed on Monday, but was up and running yesterday. The unemployment website was taken down for maintenance twice yesterday. More than 100-thousand people in Kansas filed for unemployment this week, and lawmakers are afraid technology issues will also be a problem ...

5 years ago
Arguably no other business model has been challenged as much by the COVID-19 pandemic than gyms and wellness facilities. Many of those kind of facilities that rely on patrons coming in and working out or participating in a wellness activity in numbers larger than 10. With the guidance limiting gatherings to 10 people or less from the ...

5 years ago
A new assistant principal will take over at a Salina high school. According to USD 305, Clay Mettlen will begin as an assistant principal at Central High School beginning in July 2020. Mettlen has been an educator for fourteen years with his most recent experience as an assistant principal and activities director at USD 362 Prairie ...