After seeing six of the 12 Miss Nebraska contestants compete, the judges tallied up the points and announced the preliminary winners of the evening.

Miss Rodeo Nebraska returns to North Platte this weekend, testing contestants on their horsemanship, style and speech.

Shari Schaaf, the mother of a 23-year-old Lincoln woman found dead at Pawnee Lake in 2021, took the stand Tuesday, telling jurors about the day her 5-foot-2 daughter didn't come home.

Rising City's Jared Meister, 38, is set to appear in a Custer County Court on July 14 after being accused of killing a rare white bison belonging to a Custer County hunting lodge in 2023.

The mayor said that if the center were to be relocated, it would be added onto the existing structure near Ridgeway Senior Living through a substantial expansion.