Gering News

Irrigation season is here as the four major irrigation districts either have water in the canals for delivery now or will have water available by mid-week. The Goshen Irrigation District, The Gering-Ft Laramie Irrigation District and the Farmers Irrigation District all have water in their main canals and available to their water users now, while ...

Pea, marble and even golf ball size hail were reported in storms Tuesday night across portions of Scotts Bluff, Dawes, Kimball, Banner, Box Butte, Sioux and Morrill counties in the panhandle.

Scottsbluff City Manager Rick Kuckkahn says a fifty percent reduction in city funding of the Riverside Zoo and consolidation of services with Gering and the county, especially in the public safety area, are needed in the next three years to keep city services at its present level.

One of two Scotts Bluff County Habitat for Humanity Homes being built at 15th Street and 10th Avenue in Scottsbluff was moved from Gering to that location with the help of volunteers and donations.

Gregory Bartels of Omaha, Randy Cullers or Ord, Russell Harford of Chadron, Gregory Jensen of Ord and Vance Haug of Chadron turned in applications for the 12th Judicial District seat by Tuesday's deadline.

Twin Cities Development has been informed the cities of Scottsbluff and Gering have been invited to enter into contract negotiations with the state on two of the three grants submitted to demolish commercial and residential buildings in Scottsbluff and Gering.

A Scottsbluff man accused of exposing himself to juvenile girls three times during the last month has been arrested and charged with three counts of public indecency.

The 'Help is Here Express' bus tour will be stopping in Nebraska throughout the week of June 22 - June 26 at various cities in order to help uninsured and financially-struggling Nebraskans access information on programs that provide prescription medicines for free or nearly free.

Anyone with access to the Internet can view presentations by University of Nebraska-Lincoln specialists about weed control, fertility, irrigation and other topics covered at 2009 UN-L crop production clinics.

A former Gering mayor and the current vice-chair of the Scotts Bluff County Airport Authority is recovering at a Denver area hospital after suffering a stroke over the weekend.

The Scotts Bluff County Commissioners will hold a public hearing at 4:30 this evening on proposed increases in the county's Handibus rates.

Another intense storm moved through southeast Wyoming and western Nebraska late Sunday afternoon and evening, producing a tornado 15 miles west of Scottsbluff, short-lived funnels over southwest Scottsbluff, and hail as big as softballs ten miles east northeast of Hawk Springs, Wyoming in Goshen County.

The 8th annual Gering Arts Festival will be held at Legion Park from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be 13 booths of artists, entertainment and two food vendors during the seven hour event.

Only the outline of the second-floor portico roof remains on the big yellow house at 301 E. First, McCook, after the roof, which was pulling away from the house's west wall, was removed in March.

A series of storms moving through the panhandle and southeast Wyoming resulted in the sighting of a number of tornadoes, heavy rain and hail.

An 18-year-old who escaped from a Kearney hospital and is suspected of assaulting a Buffalo County sheriff's deputy during an attempted escape has been apprehended in Gering.

An escapee from a Kearney hospital who's suspected in the assault of a Buffalo county Sheriff Friday was captured at a Gering apartment complex this afternoon.

The Scottsbluff fire department says haze of the third floor of the Lincoln Hotel caused members of the Scottsbluff and Gering Fire departments to respond to the downtown Scottsbluff property this afternoon.

Faith Keller, a fourth-grade teacher in Crete, Neb., incorporates the direct instruction reading program in her classroom.

The Scotts Bluff County Commissioners will hold a public hearing June 15th on proposed increases in the county's Handibus rates.