North Platte News

A Lincoln County prosecutor says the live-in boyfriend of a dead preschooler's mother is slated to appear in court on a first-degree murder charge.

The town of Sutherland is reeling, trying to grasp what happened in their small western Nebraska town.

There will be no criminal charges filed against a 19-year-old North Platte man who struck and killed another man June 29.

Almost 29 years to the very day it was seized in a federal drug raid south of Brady, eight pounds of marijuana was re-discovered in the Lincoln County Courthouse last week.

Agriculture - Opinion - Story List Mail: Thanks from Community Connections by Letter to the editor - 7/23/2008 It is with great appreciation I write this letter to the many wonderful people who made the ...

Seven college students from Vermont are bicycling to the Grand Tetons of Wyoming to register as many voters as possible for the 2008 presidential election.

Solutions to the national health care quagmire will be discussed Friday, July 25 in North Platte.

One motorist was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated and one juvenile was cited for Minor in Possession of Alcohol during the four-day music festival which ran Thursday through Sunday, July 17-20, 2008.

A Lincoln County prosecutor says the live-in boyfriend of a dead preschooler's mother is slated to appear in court on a first-degree murder charge.

Inflation is the top concern of small-business owners for the first time since January 1981, according to a June survey of the National Federation of Independent Business.

Lincoln County Sheriff's investigators are looking into the death of a 4-year-old Sutherland girl.

A large grass fire north of Lake Minatare estimated to be five miles in length filled the North Platte Valley with smoke Sunday evening.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. - Union Pacific Railroad special investigators and deputies from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office investigated a strange occurrence from Monday, July 14, that they believe might have been ...

Animal Control Supervisor Kerri Green comforts two Great Danes seized by the police and animal control officers Wednesday.

Two Scottsbluff women indicted on federal counterfeiting charges entered not guilty pleas this week in U.S. district court in North Platte.

North Platte Area Habitat for Humanity will dedicate their 23rd house on Friday, July 18.

A cottonwood branch fell on the west side of the McKinley Education Center, near F and Jeffers.

Two North Platte actors will struggle with life and death and see if they can do it better than actors from around the state, when Nebraska's one-act theater competition comes to North Platte July 25-27. Lou ...

The after-school and summer school program Kids Klub will continue in North Platte, the board of education decided Monday.

It's July and that means the Farmer's Market is back. On Tuesday, the North Platte City Council approved a request from the Farmer's Market to use the Parkade Plaza parking lot at Sixth and Dewey and Bailey ...