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Crews at the Western Nebraska Regional Airport have been hard at work cleaning up after all the snow... And it has paid.

Western Nebraska is showing signs of recovery after a snowstorm dropped more than a foot of snow in some areas, causing road closures and power outages.

Interstate 80 between North Platte and the Wyoming state line is closed because of snow and ice tonight.

Current Conditions available on our Weather Page . Font Size: Light snow continues to fall over much of Nebraska's Panhandle, further hampering travelers already blocked by highway closures.

WHEN painting began in the small Pitjantjatjara community of Irrunytju in Western Australia in mid-2001, there was a degree of surprise mixed in with the excitement as the flow of jewel-like works began.

Imagine this: You change your name, dye your hair, buy a new wardrobe and move to a new city, leaving everything you've ever known behind.

Western Nebraska Regional Airport will soon be seeing some new flights with connectors to and from Alliance.

A heavy, wet snow knocked down tree branches and knocked out power to parts of southern Nebraska on Thursday.

Visitation services for Saline County Commissioner Douglas Drake are scheduled for Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Kuncl Funeral Home in Western.

An area in southwest Kearney is a cornfield today, but if the doctors of Western Nebraska Hospital get their way, in a year, it'll be the site of a second hospital in a community of around 30,000. "The thing that you get when you have physicians leading is you guarantee service lines that are very important to the community," said chairman Dr.

At the All Employee meeting held on this date, several Officers of the Department were recognized for their excellent performance.

Western Nebraska's automotive replica of England's famed Stonehenge has been named the No.

Thousands of people in Northern Colorado, Wyoming and Western Nebraska lost power for several hours on Tuesday after a transmission line went down.

A plane with windshield issues made an emergency landing here in Scottsbluff over the weekend.

After about a dozen years Western Nebraska got the chance to host the annual RC&D conference and they are hoping to teach eastern Nebraskan's something about the panhandle.

The sugar beet harvest is well underway in Western Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming with loaded beet trucks making their yearly appearance on area highways.

Applications for the Western Nebraska Housing Opportunities Demolition grant funds are available now at the offices of Twin Cities Development and the City of Scottsbluff Planning and Building offices.They will also be available at the city of Gering offices next week.

The man who created the Scottsbluff Citizen Emergency Response Team and a key member of the Panhandle Citizen Corps Network was honored Wednesday by Lt.

A group of North Platte residents wants to limit the amount of local tax dollars that are handed over to the Golden Spike Tower and Visitors Center.

Two Nebraska groups will share in part of nearly $10 million federal officials are distributing to repair rural housing and make energy-efficiency improvements.

Clay Malory Berry, 85, of Bridgeport, passed away peacefully Friday morning, Sept.