Morrill News

The Scotts Bluff County Commissioners will hold a public hearing at 4:30 this evening on proposed increases in the county's Handibus rates.

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Gov. Dave Heineman has declared a state of emergency in response to high winds, heavy rain, flooding, and hail that started June 5 and continued through the night of June 10 in central and western Nebraska.

As a response to the increasingly persistent problem of noxious weeds and invasive species in the Nebraska Panhandle, the Counties of Scotts Bluff, Banner, Kimball, Morrill, Cheyenne, Garden, Deuel, and southern Sioux have joined together to create a partnership that will address this growing need.

The state is awarding more than $2.5 million to support tire recycling and cleanup projects across Nebraska, with 10 Panhandle projects getting more than $157,000. Department of Environmental Quality Director Mike Linder say the money will help gather in nearly 1.2 million scrap tires.

Panhandle residents will see a low-flying helicopter over the region for the next week or two.

KNEB News has learned assistance is needed to move approximately 120 horses from the Three Strikes Ranch south of Alliance to the Morrill County fairgrounds in Bridgeport.

Two girls who ran away from St. Joseph's Children's Home in Torrington received only minor injuries after their vehicle crashed in Mitchell Saturday night following a high speed pursuit.

Gov. Dave Heineman Thursday named Scotts Bluff County Attorney Derek Weimer of Gering as district court judge for the 12th Judicial District in the Panhandle.

Neal Monks, a paleontologist and employee at the University of Nebraska State Museum, talks with Nathan Allman about a fossil Allman discovered buried in the sand.

CONNECT Party presidential candidate Megan Collins speaks at the first ASUN debate held in the Crib of the Nebraska Union on Sunday.

Former University of Nebraska Regent David Hergert has been charged with 18 counts of bank fraud, marking the latest episode in a string of legal and financial woes following his 2006 impeachment for breaking ...

A young girl looked as though she'd be crushed by the giant woolly mammoth in front of Morrill Hall Saturday, eagerly waiting for her father to snap a photograph before it was too late.

LAST NIGHT THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THE HIRING OF VERNON HESSLER AS THE NEW POLICE CHIEF.

Lt. Governor Rick Sheehy on Friday announced the official designation of Deuel County as Nebraska's newest Livestock Friendly County.

Last month, Tyson Foods' CEO Dick Bond abruptly resigned his job, but, an Arkansas newspaper reports he hasn't gone very far.

In early December, four area ag producers represented local cooperatives at the CHS New Leader Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Rescue workers are now able to pinpoint emergency cell phone call locations in about three-fourths of Nebraska.

Roosevelt Public power crews are working on a major power outage this morning that is affecting a large area west of Scottsbluff.