Hastings News

Ag Processing Inc. of Omaha announced late Friday that the corn processing plant in Hastings will not be reopening.

Cindy Vertrees of Allen's Superstore in Hastings hands a Powerball ticket to customer Martha Huffman of Hastings Friday afternoon.

Alyssa Saurer of Ayr fills up Wednesday in Hastings. Gas prices have risen to as high as 3.99 per gallon for super unleaded.

Alyssa Saurer of Ayr fills up Wednesday in Hastings. Gas prices have risen to as high as 3.99 per gallon for super unleaded.

On Tuesday it seemed white hot in some parts of Nebraska and Iowa, as record heat baked the states.

The current 126-year-old facility is in Grand Island. The state will be accepting bids from several Nebraska communities interested in housing a new building, which would bring close to 400 jobs and thousands of dollars in revenue to the awarded city.

Seeing history is believing for Hastings Middle School students

The Adams County Board of Supervisors made no official decision Tuesday but appeared generally supportive of a bid to bring the Central Nebraska Veterans Home to Hastings.

Nebraska farmers are trying to begin the planting season, between the rains and the snowfall.

"We can't have this type of conduct - it's a betrayal of public trust," Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said in announcing that the two have been charged in connection with the controversial arrest of three brothers in north Omaha.

Kearney lawyer Charles Brewster, court-appointed public defender for the 48-year-old Naponee man, presented his client as a sympathetic figure Monday as Draper went on trial for the death of his 2-year-old grandson.

A native of Guatemala, Samy De Leon Llamas moved to the United States in 2007. He will graduate Sunday from Hastings High.

That was the question astronaut and Nebraska native Clayton Anderson asked of the 2013 graduating class of Central Community College-Hastings Saturday.

Downtown Hastings is typically a busy place but it could become even more frenetic the first Friday of each month.

Franklin couple highest bidder on CCC house

Dave Rippe, executive director of the Hastings Economic Development Corp., said that, at this point, the city and HEDC are only exploring what a bid for this project would entail.

Reimer is involved in many volunteer activities in the community. i She never envisioned living in any part of Nebraska.

Sen. Les Seiler of Hastings and Hastings Public Schools Superintendent Craig Kautz will be looking closely at the state aid numbers this week after a compromise was made among urban senators.

In reality, it's that there is no one interested in spending the money to update the buildings on the west edge of Hastings, according to Sen.

Pavilion groundbreaking incorporates Arbor Day celebration