NorthWestern Energy had to shut off service to the Brentwood area this morning to address a problem with low pressure.

The Elaine Mayes Estate has left $460,000 to be divided equally between Heartland Lutheran High School and Trinity Elementary School in Grand Island.
 

A benefit event to raise funds for Paul "Festis" Pullins, who is battling cancer, will be held from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. tonight (Nov. 21) at Westside Lanes in Grand Island.

As it enters its second decade, the Knight is filled with tradition. But the 11th annual fundraiser for Grand Island Central Catholic, called "The Knight at the Kentucky Derby," has some new twists this year.

Nebraska State Treasurer Shane Osborn was scheduled to visit six cities across the state Thursday to promote the state's revamped State Farm College Savings Plan, which is now being managed by OppenheimerFunds.

After determining that a new children's activity center is being run more like a child care facility without a state license outlining regulations, the Hall County attorney's office has filed a petition requesting an order for the business to cease operations.

The Central Platte Natural Resources District will discuss helping the city of Gibbon solve its chronic flooding problems, which have been occurring for the last 50 years, at its December meeting.

When I was 16, I broke my wrist in a football game against Columbus. A half hour later, I broke my leg, an eerie snap, audible among the huffing and puffing and grasping and groaning of high school football.

The 15-year-old girl left at St. Francis Medical Center on Tuesday has a history of running away and cutting herself, leaving her guardian unwilling to continue to care for her.

It has been a bad year for farming along Prairie Creek in the Central Platte Natural Resources District. Heavy rains -- more than 25 inches from April through June this year -- caused extensive flooding throughout the Prairie Creek watershed and millions of dollars of crop losses for farmers who were unable to plant their crops.

Before Nebraska State Treasurer Shane Osborn jetted off to the next stop on his whirlwind tour of the state Thursday, he advised Central Nebraskans to make sure their investing philosophy is much calmer than his travel schedule.

Five people suffered minor injuries in a collision that resulted in a pickup rolling over in Grand Island Wednesday afternoon.

A 15-year-old Hall County girl was dropped off at St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island Tuesday under the safe-haven law.

By Sept. 1 of this year, Hope Harbor homeless shelter had already served more people than in all of 2007. In an effort to raise funds to support its operations, the shelter is banding together with Grand Island's two other homeless shelters in a campaign called "Dine United."

With the agricultural world topsy-turvy and the whole planet suffering an economic meltdown, 2009 will be a year of challenges. That was one of the main themes on Wednesday during the 10th annual Ag Conference sponsored by TierOne Bank and KRVN at the Heartland Events Center.

About 40 people gathered at the Grand Island Veterans Home on Wednesday to commemorate the 145th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's famed Gettysburg Address.

With the nation's ethanol industry suffering economic turmoil, Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said Wednesday that ethanol will have a friend in President-elect Barack Obama.

Immigrants -- even undocumented immigrants -- pay taxes, create jobs for native-born workers and don't drain government programs and public benefits, according to Nebraska Appleseed.