06/22/10 Southern Power District has landed the first occupants for its Energy Park located on the former Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant land west of Grand Island.
06/22/10 The latest U.S. Census Bureau population estimate for Grand Island says the city had 46,861 residents as of July 1, 2009, an increase of 918 people in a year's time.
06/22/10 Seeing history and progress first-hand means a lot to Doniphan lawyer and developer John Amick. In fact, that history can be the basis for new progress.
06/13/10 The task is big, and so is the cost of making the former Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant ready for industrial development.
05/03/10 About five years ago, Hall County needed to repave about 15 miles of road a year to keep pace with decaying roads.
04/30/10 Grand Island's final mail-in participation rate for the 2010 U.S. Census will fall short of the city's participation in the 2000 count.
04/26/10 The city of Grand Island is the laggard in Hall County when it comes to mail participation rate for the 2010 U.S. Census.
04/12/10 If you wanted to know whether the landowners east of Grand Island were going to pull punches in their meeting Wednesday with state officials about water contamination, the first question gave you a simple answer.
04/10/10 The Alda Fire Department raised $6,000 for the future Nebraska Fire and Rescue Memorial with an auction that included items like a Charlie Daniels fiddle, a Husker football, hundreds of signed celebrity photos, and other entertainment memorabilia.
04/08/10 The growing popularity of wind generation systems is prompting the city of Grand Island -- and maybe Wood River, Alda, Cairo and Doniphan -- to tweak guidelines for wind generation updated just last year.
04/08/10 The Regional Planning Commission voted in favor of amending existing wind regulations to make it easier to install household-sized wind generation systems in Grand Island, Wood River, Doniphan, Alda and Cairo.
04/07/10 State officials in Lincoln goofed and cut too much money from the North Platte school's share of state aid. North Platte will eventually get another $750,000 in state aid, but not right away, according to Russ Inbody of the Nebraska Department of Education.
04/05/10 As of Monday afternoon, the mail participation rate of households in Grand Island that had returned their 2010 census questionnaires was 70 percent. The mail participation rate for Hall County was at 71 percent.
03/30/10 As of late Monday afternoon, the city of Grand Island had a 60 percent mail participation rate in this year's census, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
02/20/10 In Nebraska's Platte River Valley, sandhill cranes by the hundreds of thousands fuel up and fly off.
02/18/10 You're not likely to spot any cranes around Central Nebraska this weekend, but the area's crane centers are about as busy as they've been since last April.
01/29/10 The South Locust Street lane extensions to Interstate 80 top Grand Island's road projects list for 2010.
01/24/10 The Nebraska Nature and Visitor Center near Alda, Neb., offers online registration for sandhill crane viewing tours to the public this spring. Each tour includes a presentation and a guide to an observation blind on the Platte...
01/19/10 Four distinguished alumni of North Platte High School have been selected by a committee of alumni, staff and representatives of the North Platte Public Schools Foundation.
01/05/10 Meanwhile, Alan Alda hangs with a chimp. In non-animal news: Brendan Fraser at new movie premiere; Ne-Yo struts his stuff on stage. | 
