Local News

GI City Council Wrap

Feb 26, 2025 / Spencer Schubert Communications Manager City of GI

The Grand Island City Council touched on a variety of subjects on Tuesday. See an interview with Ward 4 Councilmember Mike Paulick.

GI Police Report

Feb 26, 2025 / GIPD

News media report for: 2/26/25All crimes reported in this news media report are felonies for the past 24 hours. For more information on report...

Central Community College-Hastings students Nathanial Krolikowski and Braden Wynn, both residents of Wood River, each received the Jim R. DeBord Scholarship on Feb. 21. The $1,000 scholarship is given each year to two students in the heavy equipment operator technology program each year.

DeBord Scholarships Go to Wood River Duo

Feb 25, 2025 / Scott Miller-CCC

HASTINGS, Neb. - A pair of Central Community College-Hastings heavy equipment operator technology (HEOT) students from Wood River have been named r...

Hastings Police Report

Feb 25, 2025 / HPD

February 25th, 2025Reported Offenses: On February 24, 2025, a 45-year-old Hastings resident reported an assault in the 200 block of North Marian R...

Nebraska State Patrol Homicide Investigation

Clay County Homicide Suspect Arrested for Murder

Feb 25, 2025 / NSP

February 24, 2025 (Lincoln, Neb.) — The Nebraska State Patrol has arrested the suspect in a Friday evening homicide in rural Harvard. ...

Hall County Board Has Tuesday Meeting

Feb 24, 2025 / KRGI News

Thee Hall County Board of Commissioners will meet on Tuesday. Commissioner Gary Quandt was on with Brian Gallagher. See the agenda and hear t...

Aurora GBB Opens Post Season

Feb 24, 2025 / KRGI Sports

The Aurora girls look for the upset against York in the opening round of the B-6 Sub district tournament. The Huskies are 9-12 heading into the mat...

GI Police Report

Feb 24, 2025 / GIPD

News media report for: 2/24/25All crimes reported in this news media report are felonies for the past 24 hours. For more information on report...

Hastings Police Report

Feb 24, 2025 / HPD

February 24th 2025Reported Offenses: On February 23, 2025, a 63-year-old Hastings resident reported a hit and run accident in the 100 block of Eas...

New Organization, High School Name Coming in Form of Central Nebraska Lutheran Schools UPDATE

Feb 24, 2025 / Jack Sheard

Listen to and interview with Brad Keasling below. Lightning is striking the landscape of local schools. The organization of Lutheran schools of Ce...

Additional Information Released in Clay County Homicide Investigation

Feb 23, 2025 / NSP

February 23, 2025 (Grand Island, Neb.) — The Nebraska State Patrol can release additional information regarding a homicide investigatio...

GI Council Meets Tuesday

Feb 23, 2025 / City of GI

Meeting Agenda of City Council Regular MeetingCouncil Chambers100 E First StreetFebruary 25, 2025 7:00 PMCity 1. CALL TO ORDERThis is an open ...

Hastings Police Report

Feb 23, 2025 / HPD

February 23rd 2025Reported Offenses: On February 22, 2025, a 20-year-old Hastings resident reported a hit and run in the 700 block of North Saint ...

NSP Investigating Homicide in Clay County

Feb 23, 2025 / NSP

February 22, 2025 (Grand Island, Neb.) — The Nebraska State Patrol, with assistance from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, is inv...

Reaction to EPA Waiver regarding E15

Feb 23, 2025 / Press Release

Smith Statement on EPA Announcement on Year-Round E15 Access Washington, D.C. – Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE), a co-chair of the Congressional Bi...

Nebraska Cattle on Feed up 2%

Feb 22, 2025 / USDA

LINCOLN, Neb. February 21, 2025 - Nebraska feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained 2.59 million cattle on feed on February ...

GIPS Pre School Principal Provides an Update

Feb 21, 2025 / KRGI News

Julie Schnitzler, pre school principal for Grand Island Public Schools joined Brian Gallagher on Thursday.

Innovation at USPS Must Serve Rural Americans

Feb 21, 2025 / By Rep. Adrian Smith

Our nation’s founders understood the importance of establishing a universal postal system from the very beginning. In 1775, the Second Contin...

Hastings Police Report

Feb 21, 2025 / HPD

February 21st 2025Reported Offenses: On February 20, 2025, a 57-year-old Hastings resident reported a hit and run accident in the 400 block of Sou...

Senator Ricketts’ Weekly Column: Funding President Trump’s Priorities

Feb 21, 2025 / Pete Ricketts

The last four years of the Biden administration failed the American people. Under Biden’s watch, millions of illegal aliens flooded our borde...

GI Police Report

Feb 21, 2025 / GIPD

News media report for: 2/21/25All crimes reported in this news media report are felonies for the past 24 hours. For more information on report...

Loren Lippincott District 34 State Legislator

Common sense about sports and spaces

Feb 21, 2025 / Loren Lippincott

I recently attended a function where a friend said, “We have returned to an age of common sense!” He was referring to a statement made ...

Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy

Students invited to submit calendar contest entries

Feb 21, 2025 / NDEE

LINCOLN, Neb. — The Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy has sent invitations to schools across the state, seeking students’ e...

Minden Community Players Bring Paint Your Wagon to the Stage

Feb 20, 2025 / MOH

(Minden, Nebraska) “I can remember playing in the orchestra as a high schooler when the Minden Community Players first did this show in 1989,...

Hastings Police Report

Feb 20, 2025 / HPD

February 20th 2025Reported Offenses: Arrests/Citations: On February 19, 2025, a 72-year-old Hastings resident was arrested on an Adams County war...