Western News

Western Nebraska authorities are trying to determine what killed a 2-year-old girl found dead this week in her home.

Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman has asked the federal government for help repairing storm and tornado damage in 13 counties.

The United Way of Western Nebraska has six campaign co-chairs this year and two challenging goals, raising $350,000 and getting the compaign completed by the end of October, essentially essentially a three month effort.

An expansion of Highway 370 is one of the potential funding projects. Nebraska Gov.

When Charles Bessey set foot on the University of Nebraska campus in 1884, the 15-year-old school had only 373 students.

Watson will attend Western Nebraska JC in the fall. Coming out of Shabazz high school in 2008 Watson was ranked in the top 75 seniors in the state and made the Essex County all-star team as a senior.

Margaret Cannon Friday, Jun. 12, 2009 01:41PM EDT T HE SECOND DEATH OF GOODLUCK TINUBU By Michael Stanley, HarperCollins, 464 pages, $33.99 Michael Stanley's second novel featuring Assistant Superintendent David Bengu, of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department, has everything.

Many western Nebraska residents are cleaning up after storms that dropped several inches of rain in some areas and generated one tornado.

HEINEMAN DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN SCOTTS BLUFF, MORRILL, AND GARDEN COUNTIES IN WESTERN NEBRASKA AND CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

Investigators are trying to determine what caused a speedboat to flip at Lake McConaughy, killing a Colorado man and injuring his family.

An Arizona man has died in a small-plane crash in western Nebraska. The Nebraska State Patrol says it learned of the crash Thursday afternoon.

People in about a dozen Yankton homes were told to leave their houses due to a natural gas leak Tuesday evening.

Western Nebraska Community College is Scottsbluff is losing its men's basketball coach of 2 years.

An 18-year-old who escaped from a Kearney hospital and is suspected of assaulting a Buffalo County sheriff's deputy during an attempted escape has been apprehended in Gering.

THE DECISION ABOUT THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT SPOT CAME AFTER A HEARING IN LINCOLN THIS MORNING, BUT INDIVIDUALS FROM WESTERN NEBRASKA, INCLUDING STATE SENATOR JOHN HARMS, GOT THE CHANCE TO WEIGH IN TOO.

The North Koreans have successfully launched a new type of missile overnight according to the Associated Press.

A Scottsbluff man accused of punching his girlfriend's 5-year-old son has been charged with felony child abuse.

Soroptomists International of Scotts Bluff County distributed nearly $13,800 to sixteen local organizations and agencies during their annual service awards banquet Thursday at the Scotts Bluff Country Club.

Two bills affecting the Nebraska Department of Corrections Work Ethic Camp in McCook are on the way to becoming final.

WNCC administrators......5/20/2009 The Western Nebraska Community College Board Wednesday approved the selection of Terry Gaalswyck as the new Vice President of Instructional Services.