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(Audio) Lake McConaughy Area Outdoor Report for week of June 24th
OGALLALA, Neb - Lake McConaughy Game and Parks Superintendent Patrick Schnell joined Eagle Media again this week to give a status of Lake McConaughy, including a fishing report and camping sites that are available. Enjoy the update.
Nebraska Game and Parks Approve Mountain Lion Hunting Season
OGALLALA, NE., June 27, 2024 — The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission approved staff recommendations for a 2025 mountain lion hunting season at its June 21 meeting in Ogallala. For the first time, a hunting season will take place in the Wildcat Hills. A Wildcat Hills Unit was created,...
Local lawmaker uncommitted on Pillen's tax plan, agrees tax base needs to expand
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — Winner take all and taxes, the governor wants lawmakers back to work one month from now. Governor Jim Pillen has said there's unfinished business to address property taxes and the way the state funds schools. It takes 25 senators to have a quorum and begin...
Nebraska Farm Bureau Foundation Awards Student Teacher Scholarship to Future Agriculture Educators
LINCOLN, NEB. –The Nebraska Farm Bureau Foundation awarded 10 scholarships to students enrolled in the Agricultural Education Teaching Program at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL). “Classrooms and FFA chapters will benefit from the passion reflected in this year’s applications,” said Megahn Schafer, executive director of the...
Jason Linder appointed to replace retired NSP Crime Lab Director
LINCOLN, Neb. — The Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) has named a new Crime Lab Director following the retirement of the previous one. NSP announced on Friday that they have promoted Jason Linder as the next NSP Crime Laboratory Director. Linder began his career at NSP in 2002 as a...
Biden-Harris Administration Announces $22M in Infrastructure Grants for Nebraska including $750,000 to a Lincoln County project
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced $22 million for two projects in Nebraska, part of $1.8 billion in awards from the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant program. Today’s awards fund 148 projects nationwide and bring the total amount of Biden-Harris Administration RAISE grants to more than $7.2 billion for over 550 projects across the country.
Soft-serve survivors: How Zesto endured in Nebraska after its ice-cream empire melted
On the hottest day of July 1948 in Norfolk, a second-page ad in the local newspaper presented readers with a flavorful way to cool off. The recently opened Baldridge Zesto Shoppe touted its “new and different … high quality dairy product” that contained 6% butterfat but was “not ice cream.”
Missouri River levels, flooding impacts for eastern Nebraska and western Iowa
As of Friday morning, the Missouri River is expected to crest Saturday morning in the Omaha area after runoff from multiple days of heavy rain upstream. The National Weather Service said moderate to near major flood stages are expected along the Missouri River from Blair to Rulo this week, "rivaling stages that were last experienced in 2019."
‘I’m really sorry’ – Nebraska lawmaker tells woman he failed her during abortion ban negotiations
When Nebraska lawmakers last year banned abortion at 12 weeks, Amanda never thought she’d be a passenger in a car bound for Illinois to get one. She couldn’t fathom she’d be driving seven hours – and spending nearly $10,000 – to have an abortion, months after a key Omaha state senator didn’t fight for an exception that may have changed her story.
Nebraska’s Cowboy Trail still incomplete nearly 30 years later
Kris Ferguson had a quick reply when someone asked how she and a small group of volunteers managed to finish a 17-mile stretch of the long-planned but unfinished Cowboy Trail in northwest Nebraska. “Oh it’s easy,” Ferguson responded. “You just need someone who’s willing to go out and get hit...
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