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Northwest Featured on Education FocusAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Apr 9, 2026 / KRGI News

Superintendent Jeff Edwards focused on events at Northwest Public Schools. 

GIPS Taking Part in Global Roots FestivalAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Apr 9, 2026 / KRGI News

Katherine Xicera and Axsam Dodban discussed Grand Island Senior High's role in the Global Roots Festival. 

GIPS Board Meets This Evening

Apr 9, 2026 / KRGI News

The Grand Island Public School Board of Education meets tonight. See the agenda and live stream info here.

LB1050 Fails to Advance at LegislatureAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Apr 9, 2026 / KRGI News

After four hours of debate, LB1050 failed to advance at the Nebraska Legislature. The amended bill would have directed the Nebraska Department of E...
Grand Island Public Library Invites Community to “Find Your Joy” During National Library Week

Grand Island Public Library Invites Community to “Find Your Joy” During National Library WeekAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Apr 9, 2026 / Spencer Schubert Communications Manager City of GI

Grand Island, Neb. — The Grand Island Public Library is inviting the community to celebrate National Library Week from April 19-25 with a ful...
 (left to right): Melissa Griffith, CHI Health St. Francis Foundation Director, Nick Faller, Gil Kuntz, Mary Kuntz and Morgan Rader, Foundation Coordinator at last year’s Ticket to Win fundraiser.     Nick Faller of Hampton, NE was the big winner of CHI Health St. Francis Foundation’s annual Ticket to Win raffle drawing on June 5, 2025. Faller’s ticket was drawn for the $10,000 grand prize during the annual free social event held at the hospital. The hospital’s premiere fundraiser also awarded a $5,000 prize to Gil and Mary Kuntz from Grand Island.

St. Francis Foundation’s Ticket to Win Kicking-Off Ninth Year

Apr 9, 2026 / Anissa Paitz External Communications Manager

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — CHI Health St. Francis Foundation Ticket to Win is returning for its ninth year. Ticket sales, for the Foundation’...

CDHD Taking Part in National Health WeekAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Apr 9, 2026 / KRGI News

Denise Martinez of the Central District Health Department discussed National Health Week and their role in the Bear Fair at the Grand Island Public...

CCC Features TRIO ProgramAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Apr 9, 2026 / KRGI News

TRIO Coordinator Laci Reiners discussed the program at Central Community College. 

Gov. Pillen Announces Departure of Broadband Director Haggerty

Apr 8, 2026 / Laura Strimple

LINCOLN, NE – Today, Governor Jim Pillen announced that Patrick Haggerty, director of the Broadband Office will be leaving his position with ...

One Arrested Following Pursuit in Lincoln County

Apr 8, 2026 / Mikayla Hall – Marketing & Communications Specialist

APRIL 8, 2026 (NORTH PLATTE, NEB.)  —  Troopers, with assistance from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and North Platte Po...

Additional Information Released in Polk County Homicide Investigation

Apr 8, 2026 / Cody Thomas – Public Relations Director

April 8, 2026 (Shelby, Neb.)  — The Nebraska State Patrol is able to release additional information as the investigation continues into ...
Meeske to headline 2026 Faith & Science Symposium

Meeske to headline 2026 Faith & Science Symposium

Apr 8, 2026 / Michael Howie Hastings College

(Hastings, Nebraska) – The 3rd annual Sachtleben/Throckmorton Faith & Science Symposium, co-hosted by Hastings College and First Presbyte...

Livestock Brand Bill Advances to Final readingAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Apr 8, 2026 / KRGI News

After 30 minutes of debate LB1187 advances at the Nebraska Legislature on Wednesday. LB1187, as introduced by Niobrara Sen. Barry DeKay, would rais...

Work will begin on I-80, from Giltner to Hampton

Apr 8, 2026 / NDOT

April 8, 2026 (Grand Island, Neb.) — Weather permitting, work will begin April 19 on Interstate 80 (I- 80) from reference post 322+23 to refe...

Nebraska’s January Unemployment Rate Remains at 3.0%

Apr 8, 2026 / Grace Johnson

Nebraska’s Job Market Steady Amid National ChangesNebraska’s preliminary unemployment rate for January 2026 is 3.0 percent, seasonally ...
Nipuna Chamara, research assistant professor in biological systems engineering, works on his computer, reviewing the prompts he used with artificial intelligence to win a category of the 2025 TAPS competition. (Russell Shaffer/IANR Communications)

Winning contest entry shows AI's agricultural potential

Apr 8, 2026 / Russell Shaffer, IANR Communications

Lincoln, Nebraska, April 8, 2026 — Nipuna Chamara, research assistant professor in biological systems engineering at the University of Nebras...
UNK junior Dylan Pfeifer celebrates with a Buddy Bowling participant during last week’s event at Big Apple Fun Center in Kearney. (Photo by Erika Pritchard, UNK Communications)

More than a game: UNK students give back through Buddy Bowling, TOP Soccer programs

Apr 8, 2026 / Tyler Ellyson UNK Communications

KEARNEY – The crash of pins and bursts of laughter filled Big Apple Fun Center as bowlers celebrated each turn with cheers and high-fives. F...

Gov. Pillen Signs Mid-Biennium Budget Adjustment Package 

Apr 8, 2026 / Laura Strimple

LINCOLN, NE – Governor Jim Pillen signed the 2026 mid-biennium budget adjustment package with no line-item vetoes.The Governor thanked Chairm...
Hastings College Theatre to present Shakespeare’s comedy ‘As You Like It’ 

Hastings College Theatre to present Shakespeare’s comedy ‘As You Like It’ 

Apr 8, 2026 / Michael Howie Hastings College

(Hastings, Nebraska) – Exile, mistaken identity and forest magic are coming to Scott Studio Theatre for Hastings College Theatre’s peri...
GI City Council Wraps up Study Session

GI City Council Wraps up Study Session

Apr 8, 2026 / Spencer Schubert Communications Manager City of GI

The most recent Grand City City Council study session has wrapped up for the evening. Mobile food units were the focus of tonight’s discussio...

NSP Investigating Apparent Murder-Attempted Suicide in Polk County

Apr 7, 2026 / Nebraska State Patrol

Shelby — The Nebraska State Patrol is investigating an incident in which one person was killed and another assaulted in Polk County overnight...

Hall County Board Wraps up Tuesday Meeting

Apr 7, 2026 / KRGI News

The Hall County Board of Commissioners met on Tuesday. See the complete meeting here. 

NSP Urges Focus for Distracted Driving Awareness Month

Apr 7, 2026 / Mikayla Hall – Marketing & Communications Specialist

APRIL 6, 2026 (LINCOLN, NEB.) —   During Distracted Driving Awareness Month, troopers are partnering with officers and deputies across t...
Yearling heifers graze on a Sandhills meadow in Nebraska. Photo by Troy Walz, Nebraska Extension.

Nebraska Extension to host April 16 webinar on spring cattle health challenges

Apr 7, 2026 / UNL

Lincoln, Neb., April 7, 2026 —The program, Nebraska Cattle Health Outlook: New World screwworm update, scours prevention and diagnostics, and...

Hastings College announces 2026 Scott Scholars cohort

Apr 7, 2026 / Michael Howie Hastings College

(Hastings, Nebraska) – Hastings College has announced the newest cohort of students selected for the Scott Scholars Program, a premier, four-...