Authorities say a 17-year-old died at a hospital after crashing off a state highway in the Nebraska Panhandle.

A western Nebraska man has been charged with assault after shooting and wounding his 39-year-old son during an argument.

Two U.S. Air Force airmen who helped a family as their house burned in western Nebraska have been awarded commendation medals.

The Sidney Fire Department, Sidney Police Department, and Cheyenne County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to Here Wee Grow day care center in Sidney.

A new hotel construction project is underway in the City of Gering.

A driver whose pickup truck fatally struck a man in Gering has been sentenced to a year in jail.

Burwell English teacher and head volleyball coach Megan McNeil Helberg is the Nebraska Dept of Education's 2019-20 Teacher of the Year.

Authorities have identified a woman whose body was found in a western Nebraska ravine, next to her vehicle.

Authorities have found the body of a missing woman in a western Nebraska ravine, next to her vehicle.

Snow and bitter cold is expected across much of Nebraska and Iowa at the start of the work week.

Nebraska's rural areas are struggling with a shortage of high-speed internet, and consumers who live there are likely paying more for service than their urban counterparts.

Two U.S. Air Force airmen helped a family as their house burned in western Nebraska.

A Chadron man is in custody after stealing a pickup and a dog, then leading law enforcement on a chase from the Pine Ridge Reservation to near Chadron on Monday.

A 25-year-old Rushville man has been arraigned in Morrill County Court after allegedly assaulting a Bayard Police Officer

Officials say a late harvest, wet corn and the fall chill have combined to multiply demand for propane in Iowa and other states.

A special needs housing development celebrated their official opening and full occupancy during a recent ribbon cutting ceremony in Sidney.

A Scottsbluff man accused of having sex with a 12-year-old and then blackmailing her into performing for pornographic videos has taken a plea deal.

The CAPstone Child Advocacy Center of Chadron is holding an Open House this afternoon from 2:00-4:00 that begins with a Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting. CAPstone is at 316 Main, just south of Petersen's Drug-Just Love Coffee Cafe.

A staff member at Gering Public Schools has resigned amid an investigation into alleged inappropriate communications with a student.

More than two dozen volunteers turned out yesterday morning in Scottsbluff to resume the search for a Wyoming man originally from the Edgemont area who's been missing since leaving his in-laws' home in Gering nearly 4 months ago.

A new report says farm bankruptcies have risen in Nebraska and Iowa.

Daylight saving time returns to Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri in March.

According to local management, the Sidney Sonic Drive-In location has been closed following a decision from the corporate office. The restaurant's last day was Thursday, October 31. 

All three of Nebraska's Republican Congressmen voted against the impeachment inquiry, as did every other Republican in the House.

The Nebraska State Patrol is issuing safety reminders about winter driving after a trooper was struck by a vehicle while assisting a driver this week in Omaha.

The Gering Fire Department is sharing an update of the three firefighters sent to California to assist in controlling the Kincade Fire.

Scottsbluff Police Department arrested a Canadian man after leading them on a chase around 10:37pm Wednesday.

The Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles is warning residents of scam phone calls from people claiming they work at the DMV.

A January sentencing has been scheduled for a woman accused of fatally stabbing a man in western Nebraska.

Several Nebraska panhandle firefighters are traveling to California to help fight the ongoing wildfires.

Residents of Chadron had a chance to trick or treat a little early this past Friday with the city's annual Trunk or Treat event.

Kent Miller with the Twin Platte Natural Resources District said water from the Nebraska Cooperative Republican Platte Enhancement Project will be pumped into the Platte River to continue providing irrigation water to Nebraskans beginning in January.

A winter weather advisory remains in effect for multiple counties in the western Nebraska panhandle until midnight Sunday night.

The Nebraska State Patrol has arrested a Scottsbluff man after an incident in which the suspect drove his vehicle into an NSP cruiser.

A Scottsbluff man is facing three charges including attempted first degree murder after officers are called to a house in the 700 block of Avenue N.

A Scottsbluff teen recently released from the juvenile center in Kearney is charged with first degree sexual assault.

Flood Communications announced Tuesday that it acquired KSID AM/FM, a pair of radio stations in Sidney.

Scottsbluff School District says there is no reason for concern over 'ugly and unkind' lists of classmates were found.

Authorities in western Nebraska say a Scottsbluff man has died in a crash on an icy highway near the border of Dawes County and Sheridan County.

A 21-year-old Scottsbluff man was arrested early this morning following an investigation by the WING Drug Task Force.

The National Park Service plans to conduct a prescribed fire, sometime over the next month at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument to reduce the amount of old dry vegetation and encourage the growth of the native prairie plants.

A Western Nebraska woman faces up to 20 years if convicted of involvement in a drug delivery ring in Scottsbluff.

Terrytown council members have decided to put off indefinitely a proposed ordinance that would have barred anyone from feeding geese, other waterfowl or other wild critters inside city limits.

A man sought by Chadron Police for the past three weeks in an investigation involving a minor has been arrested in New Mexico.

Chadron Record Editor and longtime journalist Kerri Rempp has been named Dawes County Tourism Director.

A Gering Woman accused of stealing from her grandmother has been convicted.

A Chadron woman has been sentenced to 4 to 8 years in prison on drug and child abuse charges stemming from a January search warrant raid and investigation.

The Nebraska trial of a Kansas man charged with the collision deaths of four Iowa motorcyclists has been delayed again.

Authorities say a Scottsbluff man is dead his ATV flipped in the Nebraska Panhandle.

The Sidney Police Department is assisting Logan County Colorado authorities track down a missing elderly man.

A Colorado resident has been imprisoned for sexually assaulting one of his art students in western Nebraska.

A Canadian company has canceled its plans to buy Cabela’s former distribution center and create 300 jobs western Nebraska.

Authorities say they’ve determined that an Illinois man who shot and killed himself as he fled troopers in western Nebraska last month was the gunman who killed a Bettendorf, Iowa convenience store clerk a day before his death.

A North Carolina truck driver has been sentenced to a year in jail for the crash death of a 14-year-old girl in Nebraska.

Authorities say foul play is not suspected in the death of a Sioux County man whose disappearance prompted a search north of Henry.

The Nebraska State Patrol says a Cheyenne, Wyoming man was killed in a two-vehicle accident west of Sidney Tuesday afternoon.

Police in the Panhandle are asking for the public’s help in finding a man they say tried to rob the Scottsbluff Walgreens.

Schools were kept in lockout through the remainder of the day, which meant students were unable to leave for lunch.

A Panhandle county board must decide how to return more than $413,000 that was erroneously received for cable franchising fees.

An Illinois man has died following an incident on Interstate 80 near Brule Sunday evening.

Nebraska State Patrol Troopers and other response teams had to clean up a sticky situation along Interstate 80 today.

Five people are injured, and two are in critical condition following an accident in Scotts Bluff County.

A man with a federal felony warrant was arrested in Chadron on Saturday.

Authorities have released the names of those involved in a car accident that claimed the lives of five people.

It’s still not clear when an irrigation tunnel that collapsed last month will resume handling water, so more than one hundred thousand acres of farmland in Nebraska and Wyoming remains dry.

Authorities say five people died when their vehicle collided with a semitrailer on a Nebraska Panhandle highway.