Alliance News

An eleven-year-old Alliance boy was struck by a westbound pickup truck in the 200 Block of W. 18th Street near the Sudman baseball fields at 5:37 p.m. Wednesday.

Left Denver in the morning and headed to Cheyenne WY and saw the state capitol. Quite a bit fancier than the NV capitol.

Almost a year to the day of a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Rosewood Estates in north Alliance, a ribbon cutting ceremony and grand opening celebration was held for the recently completed senior citizen housing project.

Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture.

The operator of a Nebraska training ranch and sanctuary for Bureau of Land Management mustangs and burros has waived his right to preliminary hearing and will be arraigned on more than 100 animal cruelty counts in Morrill County District Court on July 14.

A Lincoln lawyer notified Morrill County Court June 11th he plans to represent Jason Meduna at his preliminary hearing in Bridgeport Wednesday.

The largest equine rescue in Nebraska is going to documented in a upcoming book.

Alliance is going to the dogs...or at least part of it is. The City Council last night gave final approval to building a dog park on 3-acres of city-owned land at 16th and Box Butte.

Track bar bracket failures on the JK Wrangler are no fun, so the trick is to head them off before they happen.

A meeting of Nebraska Democrats of the 3rd District will be taking place Saturday at the Republican River Valley Event Center, 906 East 7th Street, in McCook.

An Alliance woman has been sent to prison for harboring a man wanted by police. During court proceedings Thursday, Box Butte County District Court Judge Brian Silverman ordered 25-year-old Tonia Walker to serve two to three years in state prison.

The state is awarding more than $2.5 million to support tire recycling and cleanup projects across Nebraska, with 10 Panhandle projects getting more than $157,000. Department of Environmental Quality Director Mike Linder say the money will help gather in nearly 1.2 million scrap tires.

Woodbury County authorities are holding a resident of Mexico on five million dollars bond for the rape and murder of a South Sioux City, Nebraska child.

As part of this Monday's Memorial Day services in Alliance, the traditional service honoring all military men and women will be held at 11 a.m. at the Box Butte County Courthouse monument.

In a show of appreciation to both retired and current military personnel during the Memorial Day holiday, Old Skyline is waiving its cover charge to all patrons for country-rock singer Chas Collins this weekend.

All 222 surviving horses and burros rescued from a western Nebraska ranch have found new homes.

Mercy Names Interim CEO Construction Season Already Underway Jay and MaryAnn Treese work with computers during the day but they relax at night by raising an animal they say is affectionate, calming, and easy to take care of.

Six wild mustangs rescued from a Nebraska ranch, where 60 horses died and hundreds others suffered life-threatening ailments, have arrived to Zuma's Rescue Ranch in Littleton for rehabilitation.

"Nebraska" was adopted by a Texan. More than 70 neglected horses and burros found at a Nebraska ranch have so far found new homes through the welfare group Habitat for Horses.

The closure of horse processing plants and the economic downturn have left more unwanted horses to roam Nebraska's fields .