It remains to be seen whether North Platte will face a major spike in housing demand from a possible beef processing plant.
Brook Berringer, 22, died on April 18, 1996, in a plane crash near Raymond. His funeral was held 25 years ago today.
If any North Platte issues of the Frontier Index survive, they haven’t been found. But digital newspaper archives have confirmed when our city…
The tradition is one of the oldest, formalized conservation observances in the world. Its occasion has resulted in the planting of millions of…
Thirty-five years ago today, a Scottsbluff radio report of quake damage at Chimney Rock was an April Fools' joke. But a lot of people didn't f…
Harvey W. Hill tried to quit newspapering two years after launching the Telegraph's daily edition in 1896, but printer's ink seemed to be in h…
We’ll mark our official 140th birthday in exactly three weeks. But today marks 125 years since Harvey W. Hill’s first issue of the Daily Teleg…
Historic landmarks across the state of Nebraska serve as reminders of prehistoric animals that once roamed the land and sea and the great migr…
He was born in Iowa, earned his nickname in Kansas and buried three children in upstate New York. But the spirit of William F. “Buffalo Bill” …
Jack Knight's harrowing trip hauling mail from North Platte to Chicago helped make history.
The old building used to be part of the World War II-era prisoner of war camp in Scottsbluff. One prisoner was an Italian artist.
It took five years to finally construct 'The Mall' in North Platte, but it became the shopping hub of a region for the next 50 years.
“That’s our motto, serving the children of the world,” said Rex Cross, 50-year member and current secretary of the North Platte Kiwanis.
The first session will focus on “Neville Corner,” which consists of the Hotel Pawnee and the Fox and Paramount theaters.
History Nebraska still plans to collect items that show the pain of the pandemic, said its senior objects curator. "We just need to give peopl…
Misspellings and misinterpretations played a big role in the naming of some Nebraska places.
The staff at Scout’s Rest Ranch, which has a few of Alexis’ gifts to Cody is “brainstorming ideas” about how to mark the anniversary.
The Buffalo Bill’s Wild West tribute show at Disneyland Paris has been at least the third production substantially modeled on William F. Cody’…
From 1992 until its March shutdown due to COVID-19, Disneyland Paris offered a scaled-down, dinner-theater-style tribute to William F. “Buffal…
Nebraska towns range in size from one resident (Monowi) to more than 400,000, but these are only the settlements that have withstood the test …
A long-hidden neon sign was uncovered Wednesday over the Tom-Tom Room Coffee Shop entrance at the Hotel Pawnee, 217 E. Fifth St., by members o…
Canteen District passers-by were stunned Wednesday to see a neon sign for the hotel’s 1941 Tom-Tom Coffee Shop revealed above the first-floor …
These 25 homes are among those that have made the National Register of Historic Places for being historically and architecturally significant.…
On Sept. 9, Lee Bird Field celebrates the centennial of the first westbound airmail plane landing at North Platte.
The Nebraska State Fair was held in Lincoln years and years before moving to Grand Island. Here are some photos showing what the fairgrounds l…
Today at Sahlen Field, Major League Baseball picks up in Buffalo where it left off 105 years ago.
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