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The City of Sidney has issued two service updates affecting a local park and public transportation beginning next week.

Fairbury city council holds public hearing to discuss unkempt properties
Two weeks after complaints about so-called unkempt properties across the city were unofficially filed, on Tuesday night the Fairbury city council conducted a public hearing for the council and community to discuss those concerns.

Unresolved violent crimes on Native American reservations to receive unprecedented FBI response
In the longest and most extensive national deployment of FBI resources to address crime in Indian Country, the Justice Department announced this week that it will send FBI personnel across the country to investigate unresolved violent crimes.

Meteorologists raise alarm over grounding of Omaha weather balloons amid federal cuts
The National Weather Service's decision to stop weather balloon launches in Omaha and elsewhere, according to multiple meteorologists, will negatively impact weather forecasts -- just as severe weather season is starting.

Box Butte County Sheriff clarifies inmate release as search for Harley Salway III continues
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.