Olivia Thomas Storytelling

In late 1827 upon his company’s arrival back to St. Louis, Missouri, General William Ashley decided to send a group of men back out west...

After a day-long public hearing with a packed audience, the Gering Public School board voted to terminate the contract of high school...

ne summer night in 1980, 22-year-old Tom Downey left his house around 1 a.m. to chase a lightning storm with his old 1950s-era press...

“Sing with me! You know the words!” Vince Ramirez shouts to the crowd at Backaracks in between verses of a country song. The room is...

Last year’s test scores have revealed, albeit with a number of analysis caveats, that Nebraska public school students’ academic...

*This column contains strong/violent imagery. One of the things I love about my job is how unexpected it can be sometimes. Take this...

With holiday parties and get-togethers around the corner, a new conversation starter that has already become quite popular for small talk...

It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a number of people taking up new hobbies and activities. A study published by...

Preschoolers filed off the bus one by one at Lincoln Elementary Monday morning. They said their goodbyes to their faithful bus driver,...

Exactly one year ago, the Panhandle was in the middle of a COVID-19 surge, and many families decided to forgo the extravagant...

After a pair of special meetings, both with split votes, the Gering City Council passed the ordinance to annex around 45 tracts of land...

Willard Johnson, of Fairfield, Iowa, spent over three years on an island on the other side of the world without communication to his...

History has been preserved beneath our feet in western Nebraska, if one only knows where to look. Public historian Sandra Reddish knows...

In 2011, Meghan Fry of North Carolina was stationed in Wyoming when she had to sell her childhood best friend, Jedadiah, a horse. She was...

After a full semester back in the classroom, albeit off and on for many students, teachers and staff, schools finally have some data to...

Eight-year-old Elion Martinez and his 3-year-old sister Eniya hand-wrote 80 cards and hugged 80 stuffed animals, which they purchased, to...

Four-year-old Carter Kampbell sat on the couch watching a show on his tablet and eating a bag of chips while his new best friend Diesel...

What had looked like a done deal for Brownsfield Park in Morrill got upended quickly at the Village Board meeting Tuesday night. The...

The City of Kimball goes back to the drawing board after a second round of city administrator applicants fell through. The city council...

Former Scottsbluff police officer Stan Lucke always knew he wanted to go into the military. What he didn’t know was that he would fight...