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GGCF Celebrates Community Foundation Week

Nov 12, 2024 / KRGI News

Melissa DeLaet visited with Brian Gallagher about the Greater Grand Island Community Foundation. 

Spaulding Named Good Samaritan’s Caring Kind Winner

Nov 12, 2024 / Anissa Paitz, PR Strategist, CHI

Kearney - Justin Spaulding was recently honored with the 2024 Caring Kind Award for CHI Health Good Samaritan. Recipients of the annual award go ab...

Dozens of Inert WWII Era Ordnances Located in Beatrice

Nov 12, 2024 / NSP

November 12, 2024 (Beatrice, Neb.)  — The Nebraska State Patrol Bomb Squad and members of the Nebraska Air National Guard’s 155th ...

GI Police Report

Nov 12, 2024 / GIPD

News media report for: 11/12/24All crimes reported in this news media report are felonies for the past 24 hours. For more information on repor...

FNBO Awards $1,758,000 in Impact Grants

Nov 12, 2024 / Sally Christensen

FNBO has announced its 2024 Impact Grant recipients, with $75,000 going to Grand Island and Kearney nonprofits.  The grants support programs ...

Troopers Rescue Abducted Child After Pursuit Saturday

Nov 11, 2024 / NSP

November 10, 2024 (Broken Bow, Neb.)  — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have arrested an Ohio man and safely rescued an abducted...

Ready to Work for the American People

Nov 11, 2024 / By Rep. Adrian Smith

This week, the American people chose to return Donald Trump to the White House while also electing a Republican majority to the Senate, and likely ...

Gov. Pillen Sends Senators the 2024 School Property Tax Collection Report;

Nov 11, 2024 / Press Release

LINCOLN, NE – Governor Jim Pillen is providing state senators with the newly published 2024 School Property Tax Collection Report, aimed at p...

Governor Pillen’s Trade Mission Wraps Up in Czech Republic, Continues to Germany

Nov 11, 2024 / Press Release

LINCOLN, NE – Governor Jim Pillen will concluded the first leg of his trade mission to Central Europe, holding his final meetings in the Czec...

Nebraska Crop Progress Production Report

Nov 8, 2024 / USDA

LINCOLN, Neb. November 8, 2024 - Based on November 1 conditions, Nebraska's 2024 corn crop is forecast at 1.88 billion bushels, up 9% from las...

Keith Olsen, PharmD, to retire as dean of UNMC College of Pharmacy

Nov 8, 2024 / UNMC

Keith Olsen, PharmD, Joseph D. Williams Endowed Dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy, has announced his decision t...

More Than 14 Tons of Medications Collected at DEA Omaha Division Take Back Day Event

Nov 8, 2024 / Emily Murray Public Information Officer

OMAHA, Neb.  – The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Omaha Division, alongside 135 state and local law enforcement partners, collect...

All Aboard for Stolley Park hits 60% milestone

Nov 8, 2024 / Jack Sheard

The committee of community members raising money for the All Aboard for Stolley Park project has reached a funding milestone. Through a combination...

Kearney Police Department Enhances Community Safety with the addition of Mobile Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR)

Nov 8, 2024 / City of Kearney

The Kearney Police Department announces the addition of mobile Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) to its fleet of police cars, significant...

Tobacco Free Hall County Looks Ahead to Great American Smokeout

Nov 8, 2024 / KRGI News

Michelle Halpine with Tobacco Free Hall County visited with Brian Gallagher about Tobacco Cessation Awareness Week.

Railside Christmas Set for November 22 UPDATE

Nov 8, 2024 / Spencer Schubert Communications Manager City of GI

Grand Island, Neb. — Santa Claus and company will be back in Railside on Friday, November 22 from 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. to help kick of...

Tree of Love Ornaments Now Available Proceeds Benefit Hospital Foundation

Nov 8, 2024 / Anissa Paitz, PR Strategist, CHI

KEARNEY & GRAND ISLAND-Orders for personalized Christmas ornaments to adorn CHI Health Good Samaritan’s and CHI Health St. Francis’...

GI Police Report

Nov 8, 2024 / GIPD

News media report for: 11/08/24All crimes reported in this news media report are felonies for the past 24 hours. For more information on repor...

Veterans Day Closings

Nov 8, 2024 / Spencer Schubert Communications Manager City of GI

Grand Island, Neb. — With the Veterans Day on the horizon, the City of Grand Island would like to announce various closures. All of the belo...

Senator Ricketts’ Weekly Column: Let’s Get to Work

Nov 8, 2024 / Pete Ricketts

The 2024 election is over. Americans voted for change. President Donald Trump’s re-election, along with Republican majorities in the House an...

Ricketts Announces Upcoming Mobile Office Hours

Nov 8, 2024 / Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) announced his constituent casework staff will be hosting Mobile Office Hours arou...

Kearney Temporary Trail Closure

Nov 8, 2024 / City of Kearney

The City of Kearney Parks Department would like to inform the public the hike-bike trail from the Rolling Hills Bridge to Cottonmill Park will...

Gov. Pillen Shares Veterans Day Statement, Highlights Recognition Events and Resources

Nov 7, 2024 / Press Release

LINCOLN, NE – Governor Jim Pillen is highlighting recognition events and resources for military veterans ahead of Veterans Day, Monday, Nov. ...

Good Samaritan and Creighton welcome the Nation's First Rural Track Physician Residents to Kearney

Nov 7, 2024 / Anissa Paitz, PR Strategist, CHI

KEARNEY-CHI Health, and its academic medical partner Creighton University School of Medicine, proudly welcome the first Creighton resident physicia...

Nebraskans are Encouraged to Start Preparing for Winter Weather

Nov 7, 2024 / NEMA

November 7, 2024 (LINCOLN, NEB.)  —  It is never too early to start preparing for winter weather. Nebraskans could experience more ...