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Early Voting Results - GIPS School Board

Nov 4, 2026 / CentralNebraskaToday.com/Carol Bryant

GRAND ISLAND – In the Grand Island Public Schools Board of Education race with the most candidates, it appears that incumbents Dr. Kent Mann ...

Early Voting Results - G.I. City Council

Nov 4, 2026 / CentralNebraskaToday.com/Carol Bryant

GRAND ISLAND – Five people were apparently elected to the Grand Island City Council Nov. 3, representing Ward 1 through Ward 5. Election res...

Adrian Smith Gets Re-Elected to 3rd Congressional District

Nov 4, 2026 / CentralNebraskaToday.com/Carol Bryant

Congressman Adrian Smith is heading back to Washington after defeating Democrat Becky Stille and a slew of Third Party Candidates with a dominate m...

Voters in the Doniphan-Trumbull School District were asked to approve a $17.5 million bond issue. (Courtesy photo

Doniphan-Trumbull School District $17.5 million bond issue has narrow lead to be approved

Nov 4, 2026 / CentralNebraskaToday.com/Carol Bryant

DONIPHAN – The vote to approve a $17.5 million bond issue for the Doniphan-Trumbull School District has received 461 votes (52.69 perce...

The Grand Island mayor's race between Jimmy Reed and Ryan O'Neill is very close. As of results posted at 1:49 a.m. Nov. 4, Reed received 6,663 votes, compared to 6,395 votes for O'Neill, a 268-vote margin. (Courtesy photos)

G.I. Mayor Race Update

Nov 4, 2026 / CentralNebraskaToday.com/Carol Bryant

GRAND ISLAND – Hall County election results posted at 1:49 a.m. Nov. 4 show a very close race between Grand Island mayor candidates Jimmy Ree...

CNHS Offering Adoption Special

Nov 3, 2026 / CentralNebraskaToday.com

The Central Nebraska Humane Society is having a half price adoption special to hopefully find forever homes for many of the animals before the holi...

Fall Festival of Faith Approaching in GI

Nov 3, 2026 / CentralNebraskaToday.com

Gina Woods discussed the second annual Fall Festival of Faith at Resurrection Church in Grand Island at 4pm on Sunday.

The South Heartland District Health Department won the Parks and Recreation Department's 2026 scarecrow competition

Nov 3, 2026 / Tony Herrman Public Information Manager City of Hastings

The South Heartland District Health Department won the Parks and Recreation Department’s 2026 Halloween scarecrow contest, with the entry &ld...

DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Safely Removes More Than 645,000 Pounds of Unwanted Medications Nationwide

Nov 3, 2026 / Emily Murray Public Information Officer

OMAHA, Neb. – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in partnership with more than 4,200 law enforcement agencies, collected 645,636...

Hastings Police Report

Nov 3, 2026 / HPD

November 3rd 2026Reported Offenses: On November 2, 2026, a 25-year-old Hastings resident reported a hit and run accident in the 700 block of South...

GI Police Report

Nov 3, 2026 / GIPD

News media report for: 11/03/2026All crimes reported in this daily report are felonies for the past 24 hours. For all media requests, please contac...

Michaela Becker leads a lesson in her second grade classroom at Buffalo Hills Elementary School in Kearney. She was part of the Teacher Scholars program at UNK. (Photo by Kollin Goff, UNK Communications)

UNK Teacher Scholars program builds a pathway from college to the classroom

Nov 3, 2026 / Tyler Ellyson UNK Communications

KEARNEY – Sage Larson knows exactly where she wants to be after graduating from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Back home in Arapahoe...

Creighton Man Sentenced to More Than 20 Years for Drug and Gun Charges For Crimes in Central and Western Nebraska.

Nov 2, 2026 / Amy Donato

United States Attorney Lesley A. Woods announced that Samuel Rosberg, 25, of Creighton, Nebraska, was sentenced on October 29, 2026, in federal cou...

Melissa Nelson, Kari Thomas and Marissa Molland work together through Meet Me on Main Street to promote local businesses and bring shoppers to rural communities. Nelson recently shared her entrepreneurial experiences with NCTA students, encouraging them to create opportunities in their own hometowns. Photo courtesy of Melissa Nelson.

Why Not You? NCTA Entrepreneurship Students Challenged to Create Opportunity in Their Hometowns

Nov 2, 2026 / Jennifer McConville, Ed.D

CURTIS, Neb. — When you look at your hometown and think there is nothing to do, consider a different question: What could you do to change th...

Nebraska Department of Education Awarded Nearly $4.9 Million Federal Grant to Expand and Enhance Special Education Teacher Apprenticeships

Nov 2, 2026 / David Jespersen Administrator Office of Public Information & Communications

The Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) has been awarded a federal grant totaling approximately $4.9 million over five years to expand and stren...

Local News

Early Voting Results - GIPS School Board

Early Voting Results - G.I. City Council

Adrian Smith Gets Re-Elected to 3rd Congressional District

Doniphan-Trumbull School District $17.5 million bond issue has narrow lead to be approved

G.I. Mayor Race Update

CNHS Offering Adoption Special

Fall Festival of Faith Approaching in GI

The South Heartland District Health Department won the Parks and Recreation Department's 2026 scarecrow competition

DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Safely Removes More Than 645,000 Pounds of Unwanted Medications Nationwide

Hastings Police Report

GI Police Report

UNK Teacher Scholars program builds a pathway from college to the classroom

Creighton Man Sentenced to More Than 20 Years for Drug and Gun Charges For Crimes in Central and Western Nebraska.

Why Not You? NCTA Entrepreneurship Students Challenged to Create Opportunity in Their Hometowns

Nebraska Department of Education Awarded Nearly $4.9 Million Federal Grant to Expand and Enhance Special Education Teacher Apprenticeships

Work begins on I-80, near Utica

Hall County Board Meets Tuesday

Grand Generation Center hosts Veterans Lunch

NDOT Reminds Drivers to Slow Down, Move Over During Crash Responder Safety Week

Tree of Love Ornaments Available; Proceeds Support Hospital Foundations

Mid-America Manufacturing Job Gains Continue-Wholesale Inflation Remains Elevated with December Rate Hike Expected

GI Police Report

Hastings Police Report

Gov. Pillen Comments Following Meeting of the Economic Forecasting Advisory Board

Nebraska Department of Labor Launches Rapid Reskilling and Reemployment Initiative to Support Dislocated Workers