BEAVER CITY - The Furnas County Sheriff's Office will be participating in the Make It Click enforcement campaign from May 20 to June 2, 2024. Thanks to funding from the Nebraska Department of Transportation and Highway Safety Office, deputies will be working during this period to enforce seat belt and child restraint v...

LINCOLN - Nebraska Backs the Blue! The Nebraska Crime Commission will share that message with law enforcement officers from across the entire country with a unique campaign set for National Police Week gatherings in Washington D.C. "From the extraordinary public support of our police agencies across Nebraska to th...

TRI-CITIES - Runza locations in Kearney, Grand Island and Hastings received awards during a company celebration. A Kearney Runza® Restaurant team member was recognized for excellence at the company's awards celebration. Christian Chadrick from the 2nd Avenue East location was honored with the Runza® Rock Star a...

KEARNEY - Kearney Park and Recreation is now taking registration for "Get Ready, Set, Grow!". Participants will grow plants, meet new friends, and dig into the Gardens. Participants will create and explore with hands-on experiments, plantings, games, and crafts. The class is scheduled for Thursdays, June 6 - ...

LINCOLN - United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Jackie Harper, 51, of Omaha, was sentenced on May 8, 2024, in federal court in Omaha for making false statements to the Small Business Administration. United States District Court Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Harper to three years' probation and ordered hi...

KEARNEY - The Kearney Legion Baseball program is set to host tryouts next week for local athletes aiming to compete over the summer. Tryouts for the Kearney Legion Baseball programs will be held on Monday and Tuesday, May 13-14 from 4 PM to 6 PM at Kearney's Memorial Field. Any athlete or individual planning to tryout ...

KEARNEY - Active space weather will contribute to aurora possibility being visible on the horizon in Nebraska throughout the weekend. On Thursday, May 9 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center issued a Severe (G4) Geomagnetic Storm Watch, the first since January 2005. ...

KEARNEY - Unprecedented. That's the word Janet Eckerson uses to describe the current K-12 teacher shortage in Nebraska. According to the Nebraska Department of Education's annual Teacher Vacancy Survey, more than 900 positions across the state were either vacant or filled by personnel who weren't fully qualified last f...

KEARNEY - A Kearney business owner has pleaded no contest to charges of sexual assault of a child and felony child abuse. Alan Mais, 60, of Heartwell had been charged in Kearney County with nine counts of third-degree sexual assault of a child, each a Class 3A felony and intentional child abuse - no injury, a Class 3A ...

HASTINGS - For the first time since February 2022, areas of central Nebraska recorded no severe drought conditions, thanks to beneficial moisture through late April and early May. According to the National Weather Service - Hastings, over the course of several rounds of showers and thunderstorms, nearly their entire wa...