Thinking about this latest noteworthy chapter in North Platte’s story reminds us that it caps our own 14th decade of storytelling.
We knew our neighbors here were writing a compelling story these past couple of years.
It seems to us on the edge of “God’s Cow Country” that Sandhills residents (and western Nebraskans in general) are environmentalists in the mo…
It’s been a tough 30 years in western Nebraska’s quest for the “big score.”
Wherever railroads were built in Nebraska’s early years of statehood, towns followed.
At long last, North Platte is set to wrap up the Iron Eagle Golf Course saga.
A new federal appeals court decision couldn’t be better timed for Nebraskans concerned that railroads intend to operate trains with one person…
After a teeth-chattering and blackout-inducing week on the Plains, let’s state a few no-brainers:
Here’s to all the dedicated local government “numbers” folks, but especially Stuart Simpson.
Already on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978, North Platte’s Scout’s Rest Ranch rightly gained dual status last month as a N…
Considering the way this month began in Washington, D.C., a new report examining Nebraska’s civic life seems an appropriate way to end it.
Hmm: Nebraska Game and Parks Commission headquarters in western Nebraska. We like the sound of that.
UPDATED, Jan. 28, 2021, 11:40 a.m.: Updated to reflect that one type of nonresident park permit would exclude Lakes McConaughy and Ogallala, m…
A recent exploration of a long-undisturbed file cabinet offered a fascinating trip into what a 1960s cartoon called the “Way-Back Machine.”
Our state’s capital city, as Nebraskans know, is named for the 16th president, who said this on March 4, 1861:
When Times Square’s famous New Year’s Eve “time ball” touches the ground at midnight Thursday, “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” might be a bet…
“The light shines in the darkness,” wrote St. John nearly two millennia ago, “and the darkness has not understood it.”
There are times when the question isn’t whether a proposed action is right or wrong.
Recent residents might know less about Jim McFarland, who died in Lincoln Nov. 27 of pancreatic cancer, than his brother Bob, the retired Nort…
The news The Telegraph had the honor to break Wednesday took our breath away.
We’ve heard our health professionals’ recommendations and pleas regarding COVID-19 many times now:
Today’s Telegraph discusses Nebraska’s new “microTIF” law — the brainchild of North Platte’s own state Sen. Mike Groene — and our research on …
With the 2020 elections behind us — in our little corner of America, anyway — North Platte has completed its two-year City Hall handoff betwee…
Jim Vokal, a former Omaha city councilman and the Platte Institute’s current chief executive officer, recently said something bearing wider at…
If you look at the three casino-gambling questions on your Nov. 3 ballot and feel like they’re familiar, there’s a reason.
We’re not quite to the end of the Iron Eagle Golf Course saga. But we already know its next chapter will be part of another story.
Your 2020 general-election ballot includes six state ballot questions, though they cover just four subjects.
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