Students at UNK put their robots to the test in the seventh annual robotics competition in the Otto Olsen building on the UNK campus. This year the robot played one on one basketball and were required to make three point shots. (more…)

Many organizations promoted the development of the arts in children at Kidz Explore 2009 Apr. 25 – 26 at the FirsTier Event Center in Kearney. (more…)

Kearney High’s Maggie Maher and Elm Creek’s Shelby Meier were both double winners at the Don Bader Invitational in Lexington. Maher won the pole vault and the 100, while Meier took the long jump and triple jump. On the boy’s side Freshman Jacob Olson, from Kearney High, won his first varsity gold in the 800. (more…)

Union Pacific and Nebraska Operation Lifesaver, a national nonprofit education and awareness program, offered area residents free train rides Friday in Kearney. Passengers departed from Kearney at Ave. K and Railroad St. and learned about railroad safety on the 1.5 hour train ride. (more…)

A critical error on a dropped third strike and 14 stranded baserunners led to UNK’s 5-3 loss to Northwest Missouri State at Memorial Field, Tuesday. (more…)

Holdrege senior Kellie Fegter and Kristin Killough set the Holdrege High School pole vault record, clearing 11 feet at the Marsh Beck Invitational in Minden. The 1-2 finish by Fegter and Killough helped Holdrege to the team title. Gibbon’s Jericca Pearson was another top performer in the meet, winning the high jump, the triple jump and the 200. (more…)

City of Holdrege residents provided a rousing sendoff for ‘The Amazing Race’ television host Phil Keoghan Wednesday morning. (more…)

Kearney Volunteer Fire Department firefighters responded to an apartment fire at 821 Ave. B in Kearney Wednesday morning. As smoke billowed from the windows, resident Casandra Hedglin escaped from the roof of the apartment house with the assistance of neighbor Clarence Patterson and Assistant Fire Chief Trent Snow. (more…)

Members of the Kearney Senior Hospitality Center shared their Easter Egg coloring techniques and memories of past Easters on Wednesday. (more…)

Melissa Franzen’s finely honed sense of detail and the hard work of her husband, Scott, have combined to great effect in their new home in the Iron Horse subdivision north of Kearney. (more…)