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Kearney High School Musicians Selected for 2025 All-State Ensembles
Oct 22, 2025 / Tori Stofferson
Kearney, NE (October 2025) – Kearney High School is proud to announce that 15 student musicians have been selected to participate in the 2025...
Kearney High School LOG Earns Top Cornhusker Award.
Oct 22, 2025 / Tori Stofferson
“Just Change It” was the theme of the 24-25 Kearney High School yearbook, The LOG. This publication earned a “Cornhusker&rd...
GI Police Report
Oct 22, 2025 / GIPD
FELONY REPORTNews media report for: 10/21/25All crimes reported in this news media report are felonies for the past 24 hours. For more information ...
Sue Kissinger Named Chief Probation Officer for District 10
Oct 22, 2025 / Press Release
October 21, 2025 Sue Kissinger, Chief Deputy Probation Officer in District 10, has been selected as Chief Probation Officer for District...
Three Dog Night to Headline in Grand Island
Oct 22, 2025 / Spencer Schubert Communications Manager City of GI
Grand Island, Neb. — Enjoy an unforgettable evening of rock and roll magic when one of the most celebrated and enduring bands of all time, Th...
Nebraska SMART Expands Statewide
Oct 22, 2025 / Judi Yorges, Director of Strategic Initiatives and Communications
LINCOLN – The Nebraska State College System (NSCS) announced today that Nebraska SMART, its free virtual tutoring program, is expanding state...
Free Community Education: Lung Cancer Screening & Treatment
Oct 22, 2025 / Anissa Paitz External Communications Manager
KEARNEY & GRAND ISLAND-Lung cancer is the leading killer in Nebraska. In 2025, state projections estimate 1,260 new diagnoses and 720 deaths du...
Pump & Pantry Wins Developer of the Year at 2025 Quiznos Awards
Oct 20, 2025 / Angelica Morrow | Director of Marketing
Grand Island, NE – October 2025 – Pump & Pantry is proud to announce it has been recognized as Developer of the Year at the 2025 Qu...
Kearney Area Concerned Citizens Plan Dinner
Oct 20, 2025 / Briann Fines
The 40th annual Thanksgiving Dinner is coming up in Kearney.
Report Shows IANR Delivers $849 Million Annual Economic and Public Value, Strongly Supporting Nebraska’s No. 1 Industry
Oct 20, 2025 / Cara Pesek, Senior Communications Director,
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 20 — A new preliminary economic impact analysis by national consulting firm Tripp Umbach finds that the Institute of Agri...
Hastings Police Report
Oct 20, 2025 / HPD
October 20th 2025Reported Offenses: On October 19, 2025, a 31-year-old Hastings resident reported a hit and run in the 900 block of South Pine Ave...
GI Police Report
Oct 20, 2025 / GIPD
News media report for: 10/20/25All crimes reported in this news media report are felonies for the past 24 hours. For more information on the report...
GIPD Felonies Report Weekend October 17th-20th
Oct 20, 2025 / KRGI News
(Grand Island, NE) - Grand Island Police responded and acted on several felonies over the weekend: Driving During Revocation, Drugs, False Reportin...
2025 Nebraska Wind & Solar Conference
Oct 19, 2025 / John Hansen NFU
The 18th Annual Nebraska Wind & Solar Conference will open Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at the Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel, bringing togeth...
Hastings Police Report
Oct 19, 2025 / HPD
October 19th 2025Reported Offenses: Arrests/Citations: On October 18, 2025, a 38-year-old Hastings resident was arrested for trespassing in the 3...
CCC News Release: Humanities Nebraska Speaker to Appear in Grand Island
Oct 18, 2025 / Joni Ransom
(Grand Island, Neb.) – Historian Jeff Barnes will present a program “Custer in Nebraska: The ...
Ideological Demands Put Rural Healthcare at Risk
Oct 18, 2025 / By Rep. Adrian Smith
It is now nearly one month since the House passed its clean continuing resolution to keep open the federal government. On September 19, House Repub...
Nebraska Publishes Contract with ICE to use Work Ethic Camp as ICE Detention Facility
Oct 17, 2025 / Laura Strimple
LINCOLN, NE – Today, Governor Jim Pillen announced the state has published a contract with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to utili...
Building a ‘Charlie Kirk’ Legacy
Oct 17, 2025 / By Governor Jim Pillen October 17, 2025
This country is the greatest in the history of the world – free, strong, resilient, a land of unending opportunity. The American people are b...
Hastings Police Report
Oct 17, 2025 / HPD
October 17th 2025Reported Offenses: On October 16, 2025, a 68-year-old Hastings resident reported a burglary in the 400 block of West 9th Street. ...
PSC Excellence in Leadership recipients honored
Oct 17, 2025 / Jason McFarley Public Information/Education Officer Nebraska Public Service Commission
Lincoln, October 17, 2025 - The Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) is pleased to honor Carrie Gans, Assistant Director Telecommunication...
Senator Ricketts’ Weekly Column: The Bipartisan Shutdown Solution
Oct 17, 2025 / Pete Ricketts
We are into the third week of the Schumer Shutdown. It’s shameful that Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats are holding government fundin...
NPM hosts special event in GI
Oct 17, 2025 / KRGI News
Maggie Berndt of Nebraska Public media discussed Threads of Freedom, which will have a special showing this weekend at Stuhr Museum.
The Harlem Globetrotters 100 Year Tour Coming to Grand Island
Oct 17, 2025 / Spencer Schubert Communications Manager City of GI
Grand Island, Neb. — Leaders in breaking barriers and making history, the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters™ today announced that Grand...
Final Report from the KPS Data Breach
Oct 17, 2025 / Tori Stofferson
Dear KPS Parents and Kearney Community, After receiving our final report from our Fortinet Incident Response Team, the hacking organization, Inter...