Gibbon News

Volunteer firefighters from Shelton and Gibbon responded to a smoky fire Wednesday at about 7 p.m. in an estimated 800-tons of corn cobs at Gangwish Seed Farm Incorporated north of Shelton.

Kearney, Neb. A new website dedicated to employment in the Kearney area, providing a win-win situation for employers, potential employees and former area residents looking to return to the Kearney area, has launched and is loaded with job opportunities.

Monday's heat didn't stop volunteers from lending a hand to help move Gibbon Public Schools into a brand new building, but it did mean starting early so they could end early.

Several tornadoes, including one that hit a pet food plant west of Aurora, were reported Wednesday night as a severe storm system stretched across central Nebraska.

Associated Press - June 19, 2009 1:25 PM ET GIBBON, Neb. - The National Weather Service says at least two tornadoes left damage behind in eastern Buffalo County.

Severe weather rolled through Central Nebraska Wednesday evening spawning several tornadoes.

Eventualities Inc. has found a niche by creating "glaciers" suitable for icing down 7-foot-tall mock beer cans.

Buffalo County Emergency Manager Darrin Lewis says the leak from a farmer's ammonia tank was discovered just before 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

OMAHA, Neb. - Union Pacific Railroad yesterday moved its 200,000th loaded coal train out of Wyoming's Southern Powder River Basin coal field since Union Pacific and the former Chicago & North Western completed a 107-mile rail line to the region in August 1984.

Gibbon students linked together on Tuesday to celebrate the end of another school year.

Gibbon Public Schools will be getting more than $50,000 from the federal government.

A Gibbon man has died following a motorcycle crash northeast of Kearney. The Buffalo County sheriff's office says 66-year-old Robert "Bob" Mitchell crashed his motorcycle in a field on Sunday afternoon.