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EPIC Discovery Center Strives for Fundraising GoalAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Sep 18, 2024 / KRGI News

The EPIC Discovery Center continues its fundraising for the new facility planned in Grand Island. Executive Director Alison Larson visited with Ste...
Nebraska Department of Corrections

NDCS takes proactive action to ensure jail time credit is applied appropriately

Sep 18, 2024 / NDOC

September 17, 2024 (Lincoln, Neb.) – Based on a recent court decision regarding jail time credit, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Ser...
Northwest Senior Elliott Balcom Named Merit Scholarship Semifinalist

Northwest Senior Elliott Balcom Named Merit Scholarship SemifinalistAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Sep 18, 2024 / KRGI News/Northwest High School

(Grand Island, NE) - Late last week Northwest senior Elliott Balcom was announced as a 2025 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist. According to n...
Community Art Show on Display at GIPL

Community Art Show on Display at GIPL

Sep 17, 2024 / Spencer Schubert Communications Manager City of GI

Grand Island, Neb. — A sense of community pride is overflowing at the Grand Island Public Library. After weeks of accepting submissions from...
Nebraska State News

Nebraska SMART Offers Free Tutoring for Rural K-12 Students

Sep 17, 2024 / Judi Yorges Director of Strategic Initiatives and Communications Nebraska State College System

LINCOLN, NE – Nebraska SMART (Success Made Accessible through Rural Tutoring) is expanding its mission to provide high-quality, free tutoring...
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Tabitha at Prairie Commons Invites Community to Fall Events

Sep 17, 2024 / Hannah Polacek Marketing & Social Media Specialist

Tabitha at Prairie Commons—Grand Island’s newest senior living community—is hosting a variety of public events, game nights for a...
Greater Grand Island Community Foundation

GGCF Opens Grant ProcessAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Sep 17, 2024 / KRGI News

Melissa Delaet discusses several happenings at the Greater Grand Island Community Foundation.
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CNHS Caring for Rescued RatsAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Sep 17, 2024 / KRGI News

Miguel Levander joined Brian Gallagher discusses the recent rescue of 62 domestic rats. 
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Hall County Commissioners Host Budget Hearing

Sep 17, 2024 / Hall County

Notice of Joint Public Hearing on Proposed Property Tax Increases Public notice is hereby given, in compliance with the provisions of Neb. Rev. St...
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Hall County Airport Authority Board to Meet

Sep 17, 2024 / Hall County

1. Call Budget Hearing to Order   a. A copy of the Open Meetings Act is available for public reference at the back of the Board Room.2. R...
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GI Police Report

Sep 17, 2024 / GIPD

News media report for: 09/17/24All crimes reported in this news media report are felonies for the past 24 hours. For more information on these...
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Nebraska Crop Progress and Condition Report

Sep 16, 2024 / USDA

LINCOLN, Neb. September 16, 2024 - For the week ending September 15, 2024, there were7.0 days suitable for fieldwork, according to the USDA's Natio...
Nebraska AG Mike Hilgers Release

Attorney General Hilgers Leads 24 States in Opposing California’s Electric Truck Mandate

Sep 16, 2024 / AG

Lincoln, NE —Attorney General Mike Hilgers spearheaded a 24-State coalition in filing a comment that asks the Environmental Protection Agency...
Nebraska Department of Transportation

August Traffic Fatality Toll

Sep 16, 2024 / NDOT

Sept. 16, 2024 (Lincoln, Neb.) — During the month of August 2024, nineteen people were killed in traffic crashes on Nebraska roadways, a...
Road Work Ahead Sign

Work will begin on US-30, west of Grand Island

Sep 16, 2024 / NDOT

Sept. 16, 2024 (Grand Island, Neb.) — Weather permitting, work will begin Sept. 23 on Stolley Park Road, from Freedom Drive west of US-3...
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Hall County Election Commissioner Prepping for NovemberAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Sep 16, 2024 / KRGI News

Tracy Overstreet discusses several election issues with Brian Gallagher.
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Wreaths Across America Hosts Car ShowAudio Icon, this article contains audio

Sep 16, 2024 / KRGI News

Wreaths Across America was featured with Billie Herron and LaVonne Catron talking about their car show in October. Listen to the interview and see ...
Inaugural associate pharmacy dean named for Kearney campus

Inaugural associate pharmacy dean named for Kearney campus

Sep 16, 2024 / UNMC

Linda Sobeski, PharmD, will lead the UNMC College of Pharmacy program based at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Linda Sobeski, PharmD, has b...
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GI Police Have Another Eventful Weekend

Sep 16, 2024 / GIPD

News media report for: 09/16/24All crimes reported in this news media report are felonies for the past 24 hours. For more information on reports, p...
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Gov. Pillen Offers Statement on Status of Special Session for Winner Take All

Sep 15, 2024 / Press Release

LINCOLN, NE – Today, Governor Jim Pillen offered the following statement regarding the status of consideration for a special session on resto...
Adrian Smith 3rd Dist

Better Choice for Students

Sep 15, 2024 / By Rep. Adrian Smith

A good education is foundational for a child’s future. By setting the stage for success, quality K-12 education can be a difference maker in ...
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September 26, 2024, 3:00 p.m. Application Deadline Set for County Court Judge Vacancy, Tenth Judicial District

Sep 15, 2024 / Press Release

September 13, 2024 LINCOLN -- According to Supreme Court Justice William B. Cassel, the Judicial Nominating Commission for County Judge in the...
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NSP Warns of Social Media Scammers Posing as Government Officials

Sep 15, 2024 / NSP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 (LINCOLN, Neb.)  — The Nebraska State Patrol is urging Nebraskans to exercise caution when communicating online. In t...
UNK associate history professor Nathan Tye brings Runzas for students in his Nebraska in the World class. The popular fast-food item is one of many examples he uses to teach them about the state’s global connections. (Photo by Erika Pritchard, UNK Communications)

Consider the Runza: UNK professor uses popular fast-food item to teach Nebraska history

Sep 15, 2024 / By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications

KEARNEY – University of Nebraska at Kearney associate history professor Nathan Tye stood at the front of a classroom inside Copeland Hall. B...
Lincoln State News

Four Submit their Names for Supreme Court Chief Justice

Sep 15, 2024 / NSC

September 13, 2024 LINCOLN – David J. A. Bargen, Adams; PaTricia A. Freeman, Papillion; Jeffrey J. Funke and Ryan S. Post, both of Linco...