Wahoo News

"I would like to give a huge heartfelt thank you to all the rescue personnel that saved my life -- Saunders County Sheriff, the Fire & Rescue squads from Wahoo, Yutan, Mead, Weston and Prague, the Yutan Dive Team and my co-workers who all braved the frigid water on that day.

The Prague school board is continuing to explore the possibility of reorganizing with another school district.

Mike Sousek struggled to keep his friend a co-worker from drowning. Mike said, a oeIa m holding his arm and the water is right up to his chin.a Lower Platte Natural Resources District operations manager Bob Heimann was clearing debris from a pond inlet southwest of Wahoo when a sudden strong suction trapped his leg.

A dramatic rescue in a small pond in rural Nebraska. A Natural Resources District worker is nearly sucked to his death while breaking open a clogged inlet three miles southwest of Wahoo.

Mike Sousek had been chest deep in 40-degree water for an hour, but being cold didn't cross his mind.

An Omaha man working for the Lower Platte North Natural Resources District nearly drowned in a farm pond near Wahoo, Neb., on Thursday.

Sandra Wade knows herself well enough to know that she doesn't like being without something to do.

It looked like moonshine poured from the little brown jug. But Nebraska's newly anointed blue-ribbon drinking water - the Chardonnay of the tap, the Amontillado of the aquifer, the Perrier of the Platte - is legal and nearly free to everyone living in Lincoln.

WAHOO, Neb. - For the first time in 20 years, Joe Siedlik was back in his home state to tape his "Big Joe Polka Show." For the first time in many, many years, all five of his children and seven grandchildren were present for the taping of one of his shows for RFD-TV. Siedlik, along with the children and grandchildren, thought they were gathering at ...

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The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says a program for mentored youth hunts has additional acres available.

The New World is sharp and dynamic in Ruzicka's photographs, while Prague is rendered in a soft, romantic glow.

WAHOO, Neb. - Cooler, wetter weather has set in, but construction on the Lake Wanahoo project is still forging ahead north of Wahoo.

A Wahoo man is dead after a serious accident with a garbage truck south of Yutan Wednesday morning.

Authorities have released the name of a 25-year-old Wahoo man who was killed in a collision this morning near Yutan.

Nebraska's largest cities began adding fluoride to their public water systems decades ago.

WAHOO, Neb. - After 32 years of waiting for answers about an Ashland sexual assault that resulted in a 97-year-old woman's death, jurors needed less than three hours Friday to provide theirs: Guilty.

The jury said 49 year old Jeffrey Glazebrook raped and killed 97-year-old Sadie McReynolds more than 30 years ago.

David George lives on an 80-acre-spread 10 miles west of Wahoo, Neb. With 10 kids, he needs the space.

A weekend accident has claimed the life of a Valparaiso area native. Brenda Strizek, 21, originally of Valparaiso and who was living in Wahoo, was killed when the four-wheeler, which she and three other people were riding, went off an embankment along a bike trail.