Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts and former North Platte Mayor Dwight Livingston are expected to address the crowd during Memorial Day services at Fort McPherson National Cemetery/ Shrine.

About 30 loaded coal cars on an eastbound Union Pacific train derailed Thursday morning in central Nebraska.

Great Plains Health of North Platte is one step closer to the opening of a new primary care center, after the last steel beam was placed Thursday morning.

Mid-Plains Community College administrators and members of the Board of Governors broke ground Wednesday afternoon on the expansion of the college’s Health and Science Center in North Platte.

A rundown of entertainment in North Platte and Lincoln County:

Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies arrested two men Tuesday and charged them with meth possession after a seemingly routine call about open burning.

The North Platte police arrested a man Monday who was allegedly growing marijuana in his van.

The murder charge against Harley Saathoff was reduced Monday to manslaughter in the 2020 death of Bryce Wood.

The North Platte St. Patrick's boys' and girls' track and field teams both claimed the Class D state championship on Saturday at the Nebraska State Meet in Omaha.

Union Pacific Railroad has donated the only historic Challenger locomotive in existence, besides the one on display in North Platte, to a non-profit group, Railroading Heritage of Midwest America, for restoration.

There is a critical danger of wildfire Friday in southwest Nebraska and the Panhandle due to low humidity and gusty southerly winds.

If it weren't for the Cody Cavalry at NebraskalandDays and the Buffalo Bill Rodeo, there would be no doorknobs in the sponsor building and the NebraskalandDays parade would be chaos.

Several Nebraska high school rodeo athletes gave some pretty big speeches during the last few weeks.

Speeding motorists in the Omaha area thought they could get away from the law during the weekend, but police and state troopers teamed up to nail them down.