Banner County News

Scottsbluff High will hold its first Fall Play Festival this coming Tuesday, featuring one act plays from four different high schools around the region.

Several schools have closed Wednesday due to the winter storm. Bayard, Banner County, Morrill, Kimball, Lake Minatare, Hemingford, Kimball, WNCC's Alliance campus and the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing are all closed Wednesday.

The look of any city's downtown could affect tourism to that town so the Kimball Chamber Director is working to clean up downtown.

One Western Nebraska County has received a little help with substance abuse prevention activities for kids.

Seven Nebraska banks took the plunge earlier this year and accepted a buy-in from a new shareholder: Uncle Sam.

Seven Nebraska banks took the plunge earlier this year and accepted a buy-in from a new shareholder: Uncle Sam.

Landowners in Banner County have created a wind energy association and it's getting the attention of state politicians.

Scotts Bluff County Public Works Director Rick Meter says the rain has continued to make the roads sloppy, and a couple of areas are now closed.

Severe storms are revving up for another round, this time in southeast Nebraska.

Associated Press - June 4, 2009 12:35 PM ET HARRISBURG, Neb. - A beetle species that has ravaged pine forests in much of the western United States and Canada have arrived in Nebraska's Panhandle, likely from neighboring Wyoming.

John and Bebe Shortall are on the way to western Nebraska to pursuer a oea cowboy, and a cowgirla lifestyle.

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.

High winds Wednesday have blown a semi off the road on Highway 71 just north of Kimball.