Regional
Sunday afternoon, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a vehicle colliding with a train at O’Fallons Crossing a mile east of Sutherland.
'Burn, beetle, burn': Hundreds of people torch an effigy of destructive bug in Custer
In what’s become an annual winter tradition, hundreds of people carrying torches set fire to a giant wooden beetle effigy in Custer, South Dakota, to raise awareness of the destructive impact of the mountain pine beetle on Black Hills forest land.
Chadron State College graduate interns at National Finals Rodeo
Chadron State College student Whitley Reder, who graduated in December with a bachelor’s degree in communications with an emphasis in journalism, completed an internship with the Cowboy Channel covering the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas.
Mountain lion tagged in northwest Nebraska killed in Minnesota
A Minnesota wildlife official says that a cougar that was struck and killed on an interstate highway in suburban Minneapolis was more than likely the same animal captured on home security video sauntering across a driveway earlier this week.
Railyard explosion, inspections raise safety questions about Union Pacific’s hazmat shipping
Federal inspectors have twice found hundreds of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific uses at the world’s largest railyard in Nebraska, but none of those seem to explain why a shipping container filled with toxic acid exploded this fall.