Seventy years ago, Nebraska was the location of a pioneering minor league baseball league. Eight MLB clubs had teams, all in central and western Nebraska.

For years advocates have pushed for legislation to move the needle on a critical issue facing Nebraska: the lack of affordable, high-quality child care. But this year? They're hoping to simply maintain the status quo.

The Western Nebraska Community College and Otero College softball teams soaked up the warm weather Thursday at Volunteer Field and it was the Otero bats that were hot as the Rattlers claimed the conference doubleheader.

The Box Butte County Sheriff’s Office is continuing its search for Harley Salway III, an Alliance man who was inadvertently released from the Scotts Bluff County Detention Center without posting bond and is now wanted on multiple felony charges.

Firefighters battled a large hay bale fire in southern Garden County on Wednesday that destroyed approximately 800 bales north of Lodgepole.

A wave of unseasonably warm weather swept through western Nebraska and southeastern Wyoming on Thursday, breaking high temperature records in multiple communities.