Ainsworth News

Farnam and three others communities have been selected to kick off the first Nebraska Community Improvement Program Leadership Development Challenge.

Elkhorn Rural Public Power District customers are invited to participate in a bus tour of the Nebraska Public Power Districta s wind-energy facility near Ainsworth, Neb., on Monday, June 22.

A northeast Nebraska couple has lost two of their children in traffic accidents a week apart.

A traffic accident Monday afternoon near Ainsworth claimed the life of a Chadron State College senior whose younger sister was killed in another traffic accident a week earlier.

Gary Duane Philben of Ainsworth, 53, died Saturday, May 2, 2009, at his home. Graveside memorial services were held on Thursday, May 7, at the Ainsworth Cemetery with the Rev.

A northeast Nebraska man has died in a crash, one week after his 16-year-old sister was killed in a separate crash.

A car crash kills one and critically injures another in Brown County only a week after their sister is killed in a different car accident.

Stone Wilson, age 7 months, is all smiles as he plays with a preemie calf in a pile of straw.

A 15-year-old rural Ainsworth girl has died from injuries she received in a two-vehicle crash in north-central Nebraska's Brown County.

The controversy and clamor over Plutonicsa plan for a run of the river project in Bute Inlet remind me of the reaction a few years ago to the idea of wind turbines off the southern tip of Quadra Island.

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE ADDER, Iraq , April 28, 2009 - Romanian soldiers are helping train Iraqi commandos on Camp Ur, near Contingency Operating Base Adder in Iraq.

The Brown County sheriff's office says 66-year-old Leroy Preble drove his SUV into a ditch west of Ainsworth about 9 p.m. Saturday.

The integrated system combines Drake's new hi-def-capable HDDS24 set-top, a headend made up of Drake-made transcoders, plus modulators, the "BBTPlus" DCAS, and a headend controller made by InterTECH Corp.

Weston Svoboda exercises his favorite horse, Wendy, at the Haythorn Ranch. Photo by his great grandparents, Frank and Juanita Beran of Sargent, Neb.

Only five states have more potential than Nebraska when it comes to wind power. But 23 other states are better at harnessing that power, according to the American Wind Energy Association .

Producers are encouraged to participate in a free farm ranch clinic in Ainsworth, NE on Wednesday, February 4th.

Barack Obama hopes to increase renewable energy, adding wind farms like this one near Ainsworth, Neb., pictured on July 31, 2008.

The Ainsworth Wrestling Club will hold signup tonight at 6:30 at Ainsworth High School Gym Wrestling Loft.

By MICHELLE ZLOMKE Chief Managing Editor Custer County officials hope to have regulations in place by May that will govern the development of wind generation facilities in the county.

Retiring U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel said today he will return to the private sector next month but will stay connected to government and hopes to have some influence on the direction of the country under the new ...