Local historian Ruby Coleman's "North Platte: Wheels and Rails" includes histories of early North Platte-based railroaders and highlights of U.P.’s relationship with the city to the present era of Bailey Yard.
Cheryl Schepker, mother of Capt. Dustin R. Lukasiewicz, USMC, spoke of how Memorial Day came to mean so much more to her after her son died when his helicopter crashed.
Six United States veterans received Quilts of Valor from the Heartland Quilters’ Guild on Monday at the 20th Century Veterans Memorial.
“I just think that my dad had a passion for the sport and a passion to help kids in every part of their life.”
Once an amusement park, twice a golf course, now the home of a multi-purpose arena.
A tornado swept through Hallam on May 22, 2004, leveling most homes and businesses. Volunteers in surrounding communities including Lincoln came together to help with the cleanup. Do you remember?
See photos of the May 2016 fire that destroyed Ideal Grocery. Do you remember the Lincoln grocery store?
It was from his hotels that Eugene C. Eppley made the millions that benefited civic and community endeavors over 30 years.
Fred Astaire, who epitomized Hollywood elegance, dancing in a top hat and tails with Ginger Rogers and other stars, was born in Omaha 124 years ago today.
Heavy rains in May 2015 flooded fields and roads in Lincoln and throughout southeast Nebraska. Our photographers and readers documented the day.
We reveal the secret life of the fugitive who gunned down his parents in Omaha at age 16, escaped from Nebraska’s penitentiary and disappeared.
A Kennedy speechwriter said the tour was the most successful day of the senator’s campaign — cut short by his assassination — because he began to believe he could win.
A coal mine near Cole Creek? Oil derricks looming over Happy Hollow Club’s golf course? Wouldn’t that have been something if either had happened during Omaha’s age of energy exploration?
The great racehorse and Triple Crown winner Omaha died at a stud farm in Nebraska City 64 years ago today.
Former Nebraska football player Brook Berringer, 22, died 27 years ago today in a plane crash near Raymond.
Ten years ago today, Jack Hoffman, a 7-year-old brain cancer patient from Atkinson, ran 69 yards to the end zone and scored during the Husker spring football game.
The blarney stone replica, a slab painted green and white and estimated to weigh 2,700 pounds, showed up at the Fahey’s Pub entrance the morning before St. Patrick’s Day 1975.
See footage and pictures from the historic flooding that hit Nebraska in March 2019.
See footage and pictures from the historic flooding that hit Nebraska in March 2019.
Charles “Chuck” W. Lalanne came to North Platte from the Denver area to manage the North Platte Country Club in 2000. In 2003 he purchased the Canteen.
Nebraska ghost towns' stories often are unheard -- and remind us about the struggles of taming the wilderness that became the Good Life.
Nebraska ghost towns' stories often are unheard -- and remind us about the struggles of taming the wilderness that became the Good Life.
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Dan Desdunes’ acclaim in Omaha was as a talented musician and band leader — a pioneer of jazz — whose local affiliations included Father Flanagan’s Boys Home.
Radio in all its forms dates back more than a century and has a long history in Lincoln.
See archive photos of dairy farming near Lincoln.
The 1948-49 blizzard left over 75,000 people marooned and close to 34,000 miles of roads impassable. See photos of how Nebraska weathered the storm.
Between the world wars, North Platte had outdoor natural ice rinks and a talented hockey “town team” played organized games – when the weather cooperated -- against other towns.
Researchers are unearthing the history of the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School. A recent geophysical survey and historical document may be significant finds in the search for the school's cemetery.
Lincoln residents submitted their memories of some favorite Lincoln institutions. Those memories are collected here.
As the Lincoln area prepares for the opening of the South Beltway on Wednesday, check out photos from the opening of the interstate between Omaha and Lincoln.