Grand Island News

Quality Structures, Inc., QSI, a manufacturer of post frame buildings, is opening new branches in the communities of Ingalls, KS and St. Paul, NE to meet the demands of their post frame customers.

More than 6,000 miles separate Nebraska and Turkey, but state and local officials hope a shared can-do business attitude could strengthen ties between the Cornhusker State and the fastest-growing economy in Europe.

The warning is expected to expire at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday for a stretch of the Platte in southern Colfax and northern Butler counties.

Building on the success of the popular Critical Defense ammunition, Hornady took the concept one step further on the road to developing the illusive "magic bullet."

A Grand Island school district has once again entered into talks about creating a separate middle school after the idea to split led to a failed bond six years ago.

Jeremiah Jensen has carried the fear for 750 days. Today, he can let it go. Ever since he learned he had a baby daughter two years ago, the unwed father from Grand Island worried that he could lose her to adoption.

Bernice Josten 1922 - 2014 Bernice F. Josten, 91, formerly of Elgin, NE passed away Sunday, March 2, 2014 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook, NE.

The deadline to file for Hall County Board of Supervisors passed at 5:00 in the afternoon Monday and there will be elections for all 4 seats that were up this year.

What? Nebraska football is back? Sort of. NU kicks off spring practice March 8 looking to put a roller coaster, emotional 2013 behind it and trying to win its first conference title since 1999.

A bill that could have thrust lawmakers into the debate over the Central Nebraska Veterans Home move is still stuck in committee.

Fire officials say they were called to the home at 157 Parkwood Drive in Grand Island around 9:00 a.m. because neighbors could see heavy smoke billowing from the structure.

Touching lives, like the Stieb family, so they don't have to decide which bills to pay while their daughter receives costly medical treatment -- the Heartland United Way honors those who've decided to "be the one" Board Chair Ron Depue said, "We can each 'be the one', step up, ask yourself what can I do to improve life in our community."

It's easy to understand the hard feelings in Grand Island after the city lost out in a competition to host the new Central Nebraska Veterans Home.

In all, 26 bighorns from the Hubbard's Gap herd in the Wildcat Hills were relocated Wednesday - 16 to Fort Robinson and 10 to Barrel Butte - to keep the state's wild herds healthy.

Just as pressure was building on President Barack Obama to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, the project ran into another obstacle.

In this April 18, 2013 file photo, rancher Randy Thompson testifies against the Keystone XL pipeline during the U.S. State Department's sole public hearing in Grand Island, Neb.

A Legislative committee rejected a Grand Island lawmaker's bill that would keep a Nebraska veterans' home from moving to Kearney.

A 58-year-old Glenvil man accused of murdering a Grand Island attorney pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Hall County District Court.

Grand Island resident Ryan Steffen didn't realize how serious the situation was when his work van was stolen while on a job on Capital Avenue.

The director of the Nebraska Department of Veterans' Affairs is defending a decision to move a state veterans' home from Grand Island to Kearney.