5 years ago
Governor Laura Kelly has signed an executive order extending the deadline for renewal of driver’s licenses to June 30th, 2021. According to the governor’s office, this order extends a previous provision that allows Kansans 21 to 64 years of age to renew online. By statute, the restriction is 21 to 54 years old. “As the COVID-19 pandemic ...

5 years ago
Kansas Wesleyan University Department of Music Chair, Dr. Milt Allen, can now add hall of famer to his long list of musical accolades. According to KWU, a Salina native and graduate of Salina Central High School, Dr. Allen was recently tabbed as an inductee of the school’s newly established Salina Central Band Hall of Fame. Joining Dr. ...

5 years ago
A man from McPherson County was indicted in federal court on child sex charges. According to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister, 68-year-old Loren Olson of Marquette is charged with four counts of producing child pornography and one count of the sex trafficking of a minor. The crimes are alleged to have occurred in May, June and July ...

5 years ago
Salina Police are searching for the driver of an older Ford Mustang that was allegedly involved in a hit and run crash Monday morning. Police Captain Paul Forrester tells KSAL News that just before 10am a black, older style Mustang was traveling westbound in the 800 block of E. Crawford and crashed into the rear end ...

5 years ago
An educator at Kansas State University Polytechnic in Salina is being honored. According to the school, Joel Matthews, a psychology instructor in the School of Integrated Studies at Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus, is the recipient of the 2020 Marchbanks Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. Established more than 30 years ago, the accolade commemorates a faculty ...

5 years ago
There are 116 new COVID-19 cases and one new death in Saline County. According to the Saline County Health Department, the total number of positive cases for Saline County has risen to 3,749, with 1,494 cases currently active.  At least 2,208 people have recovered, and now 47 people have died. Salina Regional Health Center says they currently ...

5 years ago
Police are investigating damage done at three different auto related businesses in Salina that could be linked. According to Police Captain Paul Forrester, officers were sent to HICO Motors, 645 N. Santa Fe just after midnight on Sunday in reference to an alarm. Upon arrival they found a window on the business had been shattered. Entry ...

5 years ago
No one was injured after a fire destroyed a stone house on Sunday evening southeast of Salina. Saline County Undersheriff Brent Melander tells KSAL News that crews from Rural Fire District #1 and #2 were sent to the 5200 block of East Water Well Road around 11:30pm to fight the blaze. Deputies say the two-story sandstone farmhouse ...

5 years ago
An ambitious group of Kansas 4-H members and adult volunteers recently took the bull by its proverbial horns in helping their communities cope with the ongoing grind of the COVID-19 pandemic. They are helping to lead local discussions on the challenges that people are facing during a time when they are staying at home more, seeing ...

5 years ago
The autumn of 1980 found 29-year-old Randy Roelofsen and his friend Loren Engel solving problems for the ever-changing agriculture industry. In the early 80s, farmers were facing lean times, as many factors were driving the prices of commodities as well as land value down. As any farmer knows, despite these challenges, harvest must go on. One of ...

5 years ago
Rolling Hills Zoo is mourning the loss of one of its animal family. Darius, the zoo's 18-year-old Amur leopard, has passed away. According to the zoo, over the past year Darius has been treated for renal failure, and while his kidney function was declining, it was within the last week that his blood work indicated he ...