It's one thing to be trying to raise $1 million for cancer research and treatment.

It's another thing to see exactly where that $1 million is going.

After record October rainfall, area aquifers are charging at a rapid rate, which could spell flooding trouble next year if there's a rainy spring. The Central Platte Natural Resources District is just completing its fall groundwater readings of selected wells across the district. Preliminary results indicate some well readings are near what was recorded last spring.

It's no small accomplishment for a Central Nebraska school district to pass a bond issue on a first try. It's even more impressive to pass one easily during a serious economic slowdown. That's what St. Paul public schools did Tuesday, when its $4.7 million bond issue for a classroom expansion passed, 942-654.

The Doniphan Economic Development Corp. will get a jump-start from a village sales tax and corresponding economic development plan passed Tuesday.

Freeze warnings were out Tuesday morning for Central Nebraska following a weekend where area rainfall was nearly 2 inches at some locations.

All it takes is a drive from tiny Sarpy County (241 square miles) across Nebraska to Cherry County (5,961 square miles, slightly larger than Connecticut) to see there's no such thing as one-size-fits-all when it comes to Nebraska's counties. That doesn't just go for the size of those counties; it goes for the size of their boards, too. Stand before the county board in Hall, Buffalo or Adams County, and you'll face seven people.  Head east to Hamilton County, and you'll see just three. That could change next month, when Hamilton County residents vote on whether to increase their board's size to five members.

It's occasionally billed as the state's largest outdoor traveling party. And next June, the Cattlemen's Ball of Nebraska will land in the Tri-Cities area for the first time -- just off the Platte River, northwest of Doniphan. The ball draws 3,000 to 4,000 people each year to a two-day festival of music, art, golf and, appropriately enough, beef. Along the way, it raises hundreds of thousands of dollars for for the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Eppley Cancer Center.

Heartland Security, a company founded three years ago in North Platte by Homer Creutz, has expanded into the Tri-Cities area.

A Minden man was killed as a result of a Thursday morning traffic accident near Doniphan.

A Minden man was killed as a result of a Thursday morning traffic accident near Doniphan.

When the organizers of this Saturday's Doniphan Fall Festival say they've got something for everyone, they mean everyone.

One driver was killed when a Buick Park Avenue went under the back of a grain truck south of Doniphan Thursday.

Doniphan-Trumbull band members and their director, Don Alcorn, said they aren't going to be one of those fire-breathing, intensely competitive bands at this weekend's 67th annual Harvest of Harmony Parade in Grand Island.

The Association for Career and Technical Education of Nebraska has selected three Grand Island area teachers as Teacher of the Year Award recipients.

It looked like Grand Island Central Catholic was going to roll to an easy win over Doniphan-Trumbull Friday night at Memorial Stadium in Grand Island.

The unbeaten Crusaders took a 20-point lead early in the second half, then held on for a 27 -19 victory over the Cardinals.

The Doniphan Village Board on Monday approved a conditional-use permit for a new livestock waste control facility three-quarters of a mile from village limits.

Results from Saturday night's auto racing at Mid-Nebraska Speedway:

Recycle a can to build a home. That's what thousands of people have joined together to do through Cans for Habitat.

The race season's stretch run continued Saturday at Mid-Nebraska Speedway.

The Doniphan Village Board voted four to one Monday night to approve a change in the wording of a zoning ordinance concerning feedlots within the community's one-mile jurisdiction.