GRAND ISLAND - Authorities are investigating the theft of more than $4,600 in cash from two gambling machines during the early hours of Friday, July 25. The Grand Island Police Department received a report that two machines located at a business on North Pine Street had been forcibly opened, with the contents stolen. T...

Grand Island police are actively investigating a burglary after two gambling machines were broken into during the early hours of Friday morning. The incident took place around 3:30 a.m. at the Baasch Laundromat located on North Pine Street. According to police, a suspect dressed in all black and wearing a black mask en...

Nebraska is once again facing a budget shortfall, with a newly projected deficit of $95.3 million for the current two-year budget cycle. The update was confirmed Thursday by Legislative Fiscal Analyst Keisha Patent during a meeting of the Tax Rate Review Committee, offering state lawmakers their first budget status rep...

Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska is teaming up with Senator Angus King of Maine to introduce new legislation designed to enhance health care for U.S. veterans. The bill, expected to be titled the CARING for Our Veterans Health Act of 2025-short for Coordinating and Aligning Records to Improve and Normalize Governance-...

The North Central District Health Department (NCDHD) is alerting the public that mosquitoes collected near O'Neill in Holt County have tested positive for West Nile Virus. This summer, positive mosquito samples have also been found in Dakota, Red Willow, and Scottsbluff counties in Nebraska. Finding infected mosquitoes...

PALMER - A fatal single-vehicle crash near Palmer is under investigation by the Howard County Sheriff's Office. The accident occurred around 10 a.m. on Friday, July 18, approximately four miles southwest of town. Authorities say the vehicle was traveling eastbound on a rural road when the driver lost control, causing t...

On a bitter October morning in 1982, Chuck Zangger stood in his field near North Loup, staring at the brittle, ruined stalks of corn. The early frost had stolen the popcorn grower's harvest - 600 acres of kernels that would never pop. He knelt, scooping a handful of hard, lifeless seeds into his palm, rubbing them betw...

An Illinois man has been sentenced to 14 to 16 years in prison after being caught with over 40 pounds of cocaine during a traffic stop in Nebraska last year. 48-year-old Artur Hysa, from Rolling Meadows-a suburb of Chicago-appeared before Lancaster County District Judge Matthew Mellor on Wednesday. Hysa expressed remor...

Students attending Nebraska's state colleges will see a 3% tuition increase for the 2025-26 school year, following action taken by the State College Board of Trustees in June. The increase affects both undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at Chadron State, Peru State, and Wayne State Colleges, and coincides wit...

LINCOLN - Nebraska is taking legal action against Colorado in the U.S. Supreme Court over access to water from the South Platte River, marking a major escalation in a long-standing dispute between the two states. Governor Jim Pillen and Attorney General Mike Hilgers announced the lawsuit at a press conference Wednesday...

Nebraska wrapped up its 2024-2025 fiscal year with tax revenues falling short of expectations by $86 million, signaling renewed budget pressures for state lawmakers heading into next session. According to a report released Tuesday by the Nebraska Department of Revenue, June's tax receipts - the final month of the fisca...

The Texas Supreme Court has overturned a nearly $90 million jury verdict against Werner Enterprises in a case stemming from a 2014 crash that killed a 7-year-old boy during a winter storm near Odessa, Texas. The court ruled that the truck driver employed by the Omaha-based company was not at fault. The fatal accident o...

A tragic drowning claimed the life of a 15-year-old girl on Thursday afternoon in Fullerton, Nebraska. According to the Nance County Sheriff's Office, emergency crews were called to Power House Park after reports came in of a drowning in the Cedar River. Witnesses told authorities that two teenagers had been swimming i...

Around 1:20 PM on Saturday, North Platte Police officers were called to Paulsens Inc. Ready Mix on South Newberry Road after reports of a deceased individual found inside the drum of a cement mixer. Upon arrival, officers identified the victim as 52-year-old Brian Janssen. Preliminary investigations suggest that Jansse...

Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen joined other state and federal leaders in Washington, D.C. this week to support a new U.S. Department of Agriculture initiative aimed at banning farmland ownership by Chinese nationals and other foreign adversaries. The "National Farm Security Action Plan" was announced Tuesday by...

Eight men deported from the United States, including two with ties to Nebraska, arrived in South Sudan on Friday after a six-week legal battle that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. The men had been held at an American military base in Djibouti since May before their transfer was allowed to proceed. One of the deportees,...

A Council Bluffs man has been sentenced to five to nine years in the Nebraska prison system after being found guilty of stealing historic plaques from Omaha's Central High School and the First National Bank of Omaha. Thirty-seven-year-old Matthew Fadley pleaded no contest to two counts of theft of property valued at ov...

Lower Loup Natural Resources District Alan Bartels, Information & Education Coordinator Volume 46, No. 7 (July 2025) Irrigation season is upon us here in Nebraska. We all know that water is important and that we need it to live. But how much do we really know about water? Here are a few Nebraska water facts from th...

Grand Island Police are investigating after a theft and vandalism incident at Laundry Maxx Express early Monday morning. According to police, around 3:30 AM, an individual wearing sunglasses, gloves, and a gray-haired wig was captured on surveillance footage entering the laundromat. The suspect reportedly damaged a ski...

Former Nebraska Cornhusker and NFL Pro Bowl defensive lineman Mike Rucker is suing his longtime financial adviser, claiming he mismanaged nearly $3 million of his money in what turned out to be a Ponzi scheme. Rucker and his wife, Kristina, filed the lawsuit in March in North Carolina Business Court against Jon Kubler,...